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MES: Achieving Real Quality with Virtual Products
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| Product quality is one of the most important issues
that face manufacturing firms. A company’s
reputation for quality products is difficult to
establish but easily tarnished.
While the design of a product is critical to product
quality, the best design, if not manufactured to the
requisite specifications and process, will result in a
product that lacks quality. In addition, it is not
enough for today’s manufacturing firms to produce
most of the products correctly. Even a small
number of defective products will result in a poor
quality perception. In addition, the issue of quality
has a halo effect for companies. The perception of
poor quality for one product can easily carry over
to all product lines. |
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The Myth of the Bad Employee by Frank Pennachio
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| Many employers believe that bad or fraudulent employees drive up Workers' Compensation costs. When an employee is off on Workers' Comp for an extended period of time, it's not uncommon for an employer to say, "Tom was a model employee for many years. I can't believe he's milking the system. He should have been back to work weeks ago." |
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Where is the Next Generation of Lean Manufacturing Leaders?
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| Company: | Stiles Associates, LLC |
| Go into any manufacturing company and listen real closely. You’ll hear a ticking time bomb that no one seems to be paying any attention to. Sure you’ll hear managers complain about competition from cheap foreign labor or gripe about the skyrocketing cost of raw materials. But while everyone focuses on keeping their businesses in business, many are ignoring a major hidden threat to manufacturing: who is going to take the place of senior management when they retire? |
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Is Politeness Killing Your Profits?
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| Company: | The SAGA Institute |
| How many missed deadlines and mistakes-revealed-too-late have sucked profits out of your company? Does dysfunctional behavior, infighting, and politics sap your organization’s vitality daily? Sure, you’ve hired the best consultants and trainers to address the problems, but for some strange reason they seem to resurrect themselves only months later; their chronic nature mystifying. If this sounds like your organization, you may be experiencing the common, yet unspeakable, threat that secretly |
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Motivating the Unmotivated
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| If you're frustrated in your efforts to elicit the best from each of your subordinates, chances are it's not that they can't be motivated, but that the wrong methods are being used to motivate them. |
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When Pain Keeps Injured Workers From Going Back To Work
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| While managing pain is a critical medical intervention when it comes to musculoskeletal injuries such as the auto mechanic's lower back problem, finding ways to deal with it successfully is often elusive. This is a particularly important issue since such conditions account for a high percentage of job-related injuries and a high proportion of Worker's Compensation costs. |
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