#106 – CRESCENT WRENCH VS. BOX WRENCH – MARK MOORE

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Odd title I know, but do you expect anything different from me?  I had this thought a while OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAback – a memory of past busted up knuckles to be clear – that my family didn’t have many tools while I was growing up.  If we had any specific size box or open-end wrenches, they were few and far between and probably in pretty bad shape.  No, when I was a boy and I needed to do something on my bicycle, I had to rely on that good old standard, the adjustable crescent wrench.   Continue reading

#106 – ‘FUTURE OF QUALITY: RISK®’ IS NOT NEW CONCEPT – GREG HUTCHINS

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Greg Hutchins pixIn 2000, I wrote Risk Management: Is It the Future of Quality Management? for ASQ’s Quality Progress.  We’ve been evangelizing this concept a long time.

Why do I bring this up?

We’ve been evangelizing the mantra for 15 years.  We felt so strongly that we have a  have a registered trademark on the Future of Quality: Risk® Continue reading

#106 – WORLD HAS LIMITED RESOURCES … IS INTELLIGENCE ONE OF THEM – MALCOLM PEART

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Malcom Peart pixIt has been suggested that Stone Age man had a higher IQ than today’s modern homo sapiens. “That cannot be” says the modern man but, if one thinks about such an assault on our modern-day ego and self-confessed superiority, the alleged ‘primitive’ man was able to survive in extreme conditions, travelled the planet and set the foundations for today’s societies. Continue reading

#106 – DECISION FOCUS AND VALUE IN A RELIABILITY PROGRAM – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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ABC FredAn essential element of any successful reliability program is the notion that all reliability activity relates to decisions. If you are performing a highly accelerated life test (HALT) only because it is listed on the product development guidelines or because it was carried over from the last program’s plan, and the HALT results are not part of the design improvement decision-making process, then you probably should not be doing so. Continue reading