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Putz Ballard profile image68

Going the Extra Mile-Doing a Little More Than Expectted

A great man once said, "If a person is only looking for payday and sundown, he will never go far in life." I must agree with this statement. As long as I was actively working, I did my dead level best to earn...

7 comments    life job work
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The Seven Wastes

The Chief Engineer for Toyota during the mid-1900 was Taiichi Ohno. Ohno is given credit for creating the Toyota Production System (TPS) and creating the seven wastes. Toyota defines waste as being...

1 comment    toyota manufacturing waste
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SIPOC analysis

The Six Sigma methodology follows several different process variables; SIPOC is just one of the variables used by Six Sigma. SIPOC is a high-level picture of the process and provides a visual image of how the...

2 comments    process suppliers six sigma
Kaizen helps to remove variability in the manufacturing process and improves quality86

Kaizen-Continuous Improvement

What does the word "Kaizen" mean? This Japanese word has been associated with many Lean Manufacturing techniques and more specifically the Toyota Production System. In Japanese this word is pronounced...

4 comments    business japan manufacturing
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Opening a Modern Package: Try TNT

Today I bought a card reader to transfer digital photos to my computer. (I am the last person on the planet to try to understand the digital camera. I am forced into it because my editor says I have to take...

3 comments    writer gadgets digital camera
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Energy Tax Credits - Energy Efficiency

This seems to be the Government's Best Kept Secret these days. "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009". The energy tax credit that the government is issuing for home owners who purchase windows...

0 comments    energy efficiency tax credit
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Chinese Phones

Looking at any online store, you will quickly find hundreds of imitations of the iPhone and devices from Nokia, the Nokia and other manufacturers, produced by Chinese companies and sold under various...

7 comments    technology review cell phone
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Phase 2 - Seiton of the 5 S methodology

In order to properly follow through with seiton you are going to need to make sure that you have first successfully completed seiri. The reason for this is that seiri actually leads into seiton, so you cannot...

0 comments    six sigma lean manufacturing
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Microtech Knives

I promise, this history will be short. After that, we can get into the real topic--awesome knives. Microtech Knives Inc. was started in 1994 with one goal in mind--to produce the best possible knives. They...

4 comments    fishing camping hunting
A Cell Phone Manufacturing Unit82

How is a Cell Phone Made

How is a Cell Phone Made: How a cell phone is made depends of the kind of phone the manufacturer produces. Manufacturing cell phones includes several technologies, techniques and engineering. Whatever be the category of the cell phone, the production process is more or less same with little more or little less steps depending on the kind of phone being manufactured....

0 comments    technology cell phone
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