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INNOVATION, LEAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT

Mike Micklewright — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:44:10 +0000

This is a continuation of my last blog on U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness… Involve supplier in design and development Supplier involvement in the design and development process can and should lead to creating more robust and less costly designs, perhaps through design for manufacturability or failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) techniques. In turn, this increases [...]

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Innovation, Lean Product Development, Supplier Development

MIke MIcklewright — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 02:08:59 +0000

This is the continuation of last week’s blog on U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness… Kaizen events Scheduled kaizen events for which the team might dedicate an entire day in a working meeting to perhaps develop market and design requirements, or watch the prototype build-and-test phase to further refine the design and process requirements. These would be similar [...]

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Innovation, Lean Product Development, Total Cost of Ownership

MIke MIcklewright — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:02:18 +0000

Internally, an organization can and must improve its global competitveness through Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD), Supplier Development, and the Creation of a Continuous Improvement Culture in order to prosper, let alone survive. On September 11, 2012, I was interviewed by Quality Digest at the IMTS show in Chicago to talk about these very topics. You can watch the interview here. [...]

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Gemba + Auditing = GembAuditing

Mike Micklewright — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:19:18 +0000

The merging of the Lean activity of the Gemba Walk with the Quality Management System’s requirement of performing Internal Audits can greatly enhance both! Many companies’ internal quality audit systems suffer from a reputation of being mildly effective to being completely ineffective or just non-value added. Oftentimes, it’s viewed as a policing department from which one’s dirty laundry must [...]

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