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Mike Micklewright: Creating a Leaner Quality Management System
Micklewright suggests applying lean principles to your quality management system.   …

Mike Micklewright: Lean vs. Preventative Action
Mike Micklewright asks why so many organizations that say they are practicing lean receive nonconformities related to preventive actions during t…

Mike Micklewright: Six Sigma vs. 7 Basic Quality Tools
Whiteboard  In this episode of Whiteboard, Mike Micklewright compares the value of Six Sigma to Kaoru Ishikawa's Seven Basic Quality …

Quality Road Show with Mike Micklewright: Norfield Industries—Part 1
Mike Micklewright visits Norfield Industries in Chico, California, in this first episode of the series.…

Quality Road Show with Mike Micklewright: Norfield Industries—Part 2
Mike Micklewright visits Norfield Industries in Chico, California, in this second episode of the series, Dan Bird of Norfield shows Micklewright …

Quality Road Show with Mike Micklewright: Norfield Industries—Part 3
Mike Micklewright visits Norfield Industries in Chico, California.   …

Viewpoint: Mike Micklewright
Commentary by Mike Micklewright. ISO 9001:2008 doesn't go far enough.

Profiles in Quality: Mike Micklewright, Part 1 of 3
This week, the first of three episodes with Mike Micklewright. In this week's episode, Mike discusses the importance of principles over style.

Profiles in Quality: Mike Micklewright, Part 2 of 3
This week, the second of three episodes with Mike Micklewright.…

Profiles in Quality: Mike Micklewright, Part 3 of 3
In part three of our interview with Mike Micklewright he compares continuous improvement to continual improvem…

Mike Micklewright: Lean vs. Preventative Action

Mike Micklewright asks why so many organizations that say they are practicing lean receive nonconformities related to preventive actions during their ISO 9001 audit?

Also covered: Overview of 8 Wastes

1) Defects

2) Overproduction

3) Waiting

4) Not using employees minds or skills

5) Transportation

6) Inventory

7) Motion

8) Excess processing

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