The Way It All Ends There I was, in my apartment, panicking, scrambling to get my things together. A backpack full of twinkies and hot pockets. Of course being a 19 year old residing in the suburbs of Detroit, I had a whole room full of guns….with no ammunition. PERFECT! I normally pack a .44 colt with me, but that’s for standard use, not against a horde of zombies. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, ZOMBIES. I’ve had confrontations with them for 2 years. However these zombies are unlike any I’ve
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372 Quick Review Sheet Videos Toyota • Lift trucks, number 1 in lift truck sales since 2002 Ships • WWII, German U boats sunk more ships than could be produced • Henry J Kaiser, not a sailor, worked on Hoover and San Fran Bay bridge • Liberty Ships, 3 per day, fastest produced in 80 hours Deming History • W. Edwards Deming, statistician who worked for census bureau • Created JIT, Deming circle • Focused on quality control and that workers were important Alaskan Pipeline • Large
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TO DO Not to overuse an old adage (too late—I already I am) but it’s the little things in life that can make all the difference. Last weekend, I witnessed an act of gratitude that got me thinking about how we treat each other—how one simple thing can change the course of someone’s day. I was in downtown Los Angeles stopped at a red light, when I spotted two soldiers crossing the street toward the bus stop. There was a homeless man sitting on the other side of the street, who promptly stood up
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Unit 1 Quality Manageent MT435-02 -Operations Management Professor: Jason Jackson Magida Taracena 8/2/2014 A business may manufacture goods and to meet their clients needs. It is obvious that many customers always know that some businesses make better products than others, and therefore buys accordingly to it. So, that means that the business must reflect on how the client labels the word quality. I think that quality should be meant at the requirements of the customer
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According to GE, (2010) there are three main elements of quality; customer, process, and the employee. GE has used these elements of quality to keep their business booming and maintain their competitive advantage. GE has a philosophy that says delighting their customers is a necessity because if they don’t delight their customers then someone else will. W. Edwards Deming is one of the most well known pioneers in Quality and is known for developing the Deming Cycle. The Deming Cycle consists of
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The workers would then both tell a single recorder the amounts to be recorded. This would be repeated with the designated shuffler. In order to assure that the second supplier is delivering the promised quality, we made a second quality control chart. This would be done using the same process as the first round. According to our results, the second supplier delivered better results. The proportion of hearts varied less with the second supplier. Using only 15 samples we were able to draw this
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CURRENT LITERATURE PA N E L D I S C U S S I O N “Six Sigma Black Belts: What Do They Need to Know?” Publication: Journal of Quality Technology T he October 2001 issue of the Journal of Quality Technology (JQT) contains a panel discussion on the training of Six Sigma Black Belts. According to JQT’s editor, William H. Woodall, the discussion centers on a paper by Roger W. Hoerl of General Electric (GE) entitled “Six Sigma Black Belts: What Do They Need To Know?” The Abstract Six Sigma improvement
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The Juran Trilogy: It is one of the best approaches developed by Dr. Joseph Juran. It has three components: Planning, control, and improvement, and is referred to as the Juran Trilogy. It is based loosely on financial processes such as budgeting (planning), expense measurement (control), and cost reduction (improvement). Quality Planning: The structured process for designing products and services that meet new breakthrough, goals and ensure that customer needs are met. The processes are called
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TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION: Total quality management stresses three principles: customer satisfaction, employee involvement, and continuous improvements in quality. We shall take a look at what it involves being; the meaning of quality, cost of TQM, Evolution of TQM, Philosophy of TQM and quality tools for identifying and solving quality. Lastly, we shall describe the awards and quality certifications. DEFINING QUALITY According to Wiley (2005)
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Lecture 5 SIX SIGMA 1 COMPANIES USING Six Sigma is in use in virtually all industries around the world. Some of companies can be listed as: • Motorola • Ericsson • General Electric • Sony • Ford Motor Co. • CITI bank 2 WHAT IS SIGMA ? • A term (Greek) used in statistics to represent standard deviation from mean value, an indicator of the degree of variation in a set of a process. • Sigma measures how far a given process deviates from perfection. Higher sigma capability, better performance
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