Tag: Quality

Turn the Tables on Haier Management?

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Chinese Refrigerator Maker Finds U.S. Chilly - WSJ.com:Here's another case of where your bosses should NOT take manufacturing management practices from the WSJ. In...

Lean *is* About Quality, Folks

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Time for a low-carb Lean Six Sigma?:Stuff like this irritates me to no end:"Lean Manufacturing has us analyzing process flow and delay times at...

The Feds Reverse Their Decision on Checklists!

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Wachter's World : The Checklist Saga: Victory!This is great news for patients and is probably great news for those of you who have been...

Hospital Safety, Quality and Advertising

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I was wondering the other day about hospital advertising that you might see in your community (TV ads, billboards, newspaper ads). With the focus...

Putting the Burden on Patients?

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I saw this ad (click on the photo for a larger, readable view) in the Wall Street Journal Monday. It's an ad run...

Duct Taping the Dreamliner

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Flightblogger: Temporary Fasteners Causing Major Problems for 787 ProgramOk, so Boeing isn't using duct tape in their efforts to cobble together the first Dreamliner...

The Bloodbath to Come

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by Mike Lopez All these lead paint toy scandals are only the beginning. On July 12, 2007, Businessweek ran a story, "Made in China:...

No, Not Spongebob!!

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LEAD SINKS SPONGEBOB CHINA GOODSSung to the TV theme... parody words by Mark Graban"Who's covered in lead and lives under the sea?Spongebob! Squarepants!Whose...

The Roots of Lean

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by Mike Lopez Today and tomorrow, I have the pleasure of taking part in a Lean Six Sigma summit being hosted by our corporation....

Today’s Editorial Cartoon

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From today's USA Today, on the heels of the recent bad quality from China news, which includes:Baby bibs with lead found at Wal-MartTainted seafood"Chemical...

Management’s Job is to be Proactive

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Running a hospital: Our Joint Commission Report The headline is my modification of a Deming expression, that management's job is prediction. Statistical process control was...

Let’s Hope They Don’t Name the Grey Paint Color "Lead"

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China's Chery Car: Safe At Any Speed For U.S. Market? - CNBC.comI had a number of readers email me this crash test video of...