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Message to Manufacturers: Catapult the Cow

Mark Graban - November 17, 2008 1

This is a guest post by Gary Conner, the author of many books focused on the "small shop" manufacturer, including: Lean Manufacturing for the Small...

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I suspect they think of control charts as a "manufacturing quality" tool, the way GM did even back in 1995…
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Mark, Yes. That is my understanding as well. They used control chart many years ago and I believe still teach…
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Well said, Eric. I haven't seen evidence in my travels of Toyota using Process Behavior Charts for their metrics, though.
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