whrlwnd2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> We are in a global economy now. We are in fierce competition with
> Mexico and China in the global market place. Where China or Mexico can
> afford hgh scrap rates because they have low labor costs. American
> companies don't have that luxury. We need to keep our equipment
> maintained to produce low scrap yields.
> Continuous process improvement using SPC techniques is the best tool
> to do this. Anything short of Total Quality Management is "expensive
> nonsense." The cost of quality, on average, is around 4%, where the cost
> of non-conforming product is roughly 20%, according to Crosby.
> My company has already pumped-out nearly a million dollars this year
> in sorting costs, this doesn't include overtime internally for
> non-conforming parts caught in house. If one were to do a why-why
> analysis for this, the root cause would be lack of control over
> processes, poorly maintained equipment, high variation within processes,
> running 7 days a week, non-stop. I'll ask anyone, if you were to work 10
> hour days, 7 days a week, for over a year, how much "Git R Done" do you
> think you will have left in you? The cost of non-conformity goes far
> deeper than a dollar sign. The associates on the floor get burned-out,
> many of the best ones quit. Customers get frustrated as well, they want
> smooth running at thier facility, not an army of sorters getting in the
> way. Or a 20% spike in leak rates, etc...When the customer has to work
> 10 hour days, 7 days a week, because of high fallout from your companies
> non-conforming goods. I think you can see the cost of quality starts
> looking more appealing.
> I am not sure exactly what this thread was about, but SPC and
> six-sigma isn't "BS"
>
Nowhere in this maze of buzzwords and belaboring of the bloody obvious
did you offer any rational reason for believing that SS is not
cleverly-packaged bull****. You also seem to be challenged wrt the idea
of "root cause"; the actual root cause of all of those bad things you're
going through is lack of leader****p. Paraphrasing Deming: **** all of
that short-term financial gains crap. Substitute leader****p.
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