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TEMPORARY GLUE
Last week I keynoted the Contract Packaging Association with a talk on quality as the absence of variation. If you
ARE YOU LAZY?
Full disclosure: I am (just ask my wife) and I am proud of it.
What about you?
Before you get
63 PROCESSES
26 letters can be combined to make any word in English or any other language.
10 numeric digits can combined
QUALITY ASSURED
Quality is the absence of variation. Any variation from the optimum represents lost quality. Minimum and maximum specifications do not
LABEL ISSUES
When problems occur with labeling, some of us have a tendency to blame the machine and start adjusting. True, there
VACUUM SUCTION CUPS
PT Barnum is supposed to have said that there is a sucker born every minute. Judging by how frequently suckers
HAND KNOBS AND LEVERS
Packaging machines use lots of hand knobs and hand levers to facilitate adjustment. To some extent I find them incorrectly
CALCULATING DOWNTIME’S COSTS
A couple weeks ago I discussed why it is critical to know your costs of downtime. https://packagingindustry.www.fraingroup.com/2011/10/05/know-your-costs/. It is an
KNOW YOUR COSTS!
Whenever I speak, as I did at PackExpo last week, I always ask for a show of hands of those
THE VISUAL FACTORY
Michel Greif’s 1991 book The Visual Factory is a classic that everyone should read. Read it or not, the concept
Standing in Line, Learning Quality
Can you learn quality while standing in line? Sure. Just watch how McDonalds makes french fries.
McDonalds’ fries are loved
Little Things Count
Early on Henry Ford directed that all parts and materials would be priced to 4 decimal places. He figured, correctly,