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Ecological Disaster

12 May, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The Oil Slick in the Gulf of Mexico is now roughly the size of Puerto Rico.  Oil is rushing to the surface at the rate of 800,000 litres per day. The cause of the spill is known and understood and attempts are being made to stem the flow of oil. What is not so well […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: cost saving, process control, root cause analysis

You Clever Rat

12 April, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Have a good look at the picture below, can you see the pattern?  What is going to happen next?  Red or Green?  Left or Right?  Write down the answer (no cheating). An experiment was carried out in the USA (See the link).  A rat was put at the foot of a T shaped maze and […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: process control, process noise

Quality Checking

12 April, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Happens to late. Is very expensive. And we aren’t good at it. The brain sees what it wants to see, not what is there. If you don’t believe me watch the video. Photo by Randy Jacob on Unsplash

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: error proofing, process control, quality control, video, waste

Keep Your Mouth Shut

3 April, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

My drain is blocked, I have been ignoring it.  I really don’t fancy unblocking it, but as it is getting warm it is starting to smell.  It needs to be fixed. I bought a set of rods and a plunger home, as I was getting out of my car my neighbour gave me some advice: […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: capability, process control, tools to do the job, video, waste

The Benchmark

24 March, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Curry

A friend of mine makes chicken curry for a living, he makes a lot of it, in fact he makes 2 tonnes of it an hour, he could keep most of Birmingham fed. The problem is that when you make that much curry, invariably you drop some.  Last year he threw away well over £1 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: benchmarking, best practice, cost saving, manufacturing, measurement, process control

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