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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

Fooling Yourself

4 December, 2009 by James Lawther 1 Comment

Very often the solution to all administrative ills is to have somebody carry out “Quality Control” on everything that is sent out.  That way you can be absolutely sure that it is all correct, with no chance of error.  Some departments have an army of Quality Controllers who don’t release anything unless it has been […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: process control, quality assurance, quality control, video

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