PRESS RELEASE The Right Approach Consulting April 9th, 2018 Waukesha, WI Alloy Products Corp. Receives ISO 9001: 2015 Certification I am proud to announce that client Alloy Products Corp. has received certification to ISO 9001: 2015 from registrar TUV. The company had a solid quality foundation going in from many years of certification to prior […]
“We strive to decide our own fate. We act with self-reliance, trusting in our own abilities. We accept responsibility for our conduct and for maintaining and improving the skills that enable us to produce added value.” –Excerpt from Toyota Motor Corporation’s internal document titled “Toyota Way”. Wrong Headed Thinking The opening quote captures the values […]
I think you might be interested in reading my latest column “The Rebirth of Made in America”, which can be found at: http://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/950499-pcb-mar2018/76
I am excited to inform you that my interview, “Defining Customer-Supplier Relationships and Customer Satisfaction,” has now been published in SMT007 Magazine. I invite you to read the full story here, http://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/935136-smt-feb2018/32
Register now for my IPC/APEX PCB Executive Forum to learn how to implement W.O.R.C., a new lead time reduction strategy for high-mix, low-volume manufacturing operations. Join me Monday, February 26 at 2:00 pm by registering at: http://www.ipcapexexpo.org/html/register/default.htm Highlights Lean, theory of constraints (ToC), quick response manufacturing (QRM), cross-training, and SPC are powerful, tried and true […]
PRESS RELEASE The Right Approach Consulting February 13, 2018 West Bend, WI Moraine Plastics Receives ISO 9001: 2015 Certification I am proud to announce that client Moraine Plastics has received certification to ISO 9001: 2015 from registrar Intertek. The company had a strong quality foundation going in from many years of certification to prior revisions […]
Operational excellence takes work; more specifically, it takes relentless execution. There should be no lack of available continuous improvement projects in the average PCB or other custom component manufacturer. Developing a strategy for identifying the potential projects should be the first step in the process. Using defect data and Pareto analysis you can easily see […]
Formal improvement teams are arguably the most effective continuous improvement vehicle available to an organization. When resources are scarce, many companies are using their TRB (technical review board) as a CI team. Providing group dynamics and team building training to teams increase their effectiveness exponentially. Companies have come up with some very creative names for […]
The underlying philosophy, which ensures the success and growth of an organization, is that every facet of the operation must continuously improve. This means that instead of having one specific objective that once met signals the end of progressive effort, employees at every level of responsibility must always strive to perform better next month than […]
Continuous improvement is a journey, and as with most things worthwhile, needs to be an integral part of an organization’s everyday life. It can only come from people, motivated and committed, learning what they can learn, solving problems that they can solve, and implementing solutions that they develop. The venerable quality guru W. Edwards Deming […]
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