I have been watching the news and listening to the pundits, and, apparently, we are steaming out of the great recession and the manufacturing flywheel is nearing full speed. As we all know, that’s a bunch of crap. Many manufactures are still in survival mode where cost cutting has crossed......
Leading, shaping, and guiding technology work is hard, even for technologists who spend all day doing it. So, it seems the all-too-busy CEOs don’t stand a chance at effectively shaping their companies’ technical work. And it’s not just the non-technologist CEOs who have a problem; the technologist CEOs also have......
Al Hamilton, of Axiomatic Design Solutions, wrote a good article on how Axiomatic Design can be used to evaluate multiple design alternatives. Here is an excerpt from the article: Axiomatic design breaks the design process into four domains, shown in Figure 1. The customer domain can be thought of as......
I wrote an article on the level of savings when product designers are engaged in DFMA. Here is an excerpt: This month, Shipulski details the company’s lean product-design efforts as he issues a “call to action” for lean manufacturers everywhere to involve their product-design teams. Why should the manufacturing engineering......
John Teresco of Industry Week wrote a good article that shows how up upfront design enables the next level of improvments in Lean and Six Sigma. Here are several excerpts: At Hypertherm Inc., a manufacturer of plasma cutting systems, the DFMA software enabled a first pass part count reduction as......
(This post was published as an article. View the article as a .pdf or .htm.) Have we read enough, talked enough, circled, and delayed the issue enough to finally do something about the decline in US manufacturing? Are we afraid enough yet, after each quarterly government trade report, to undertake......
Results from a new survey show that upfront design using DFMA methods creates significant savings in operational cost — downstream savings. An exerpt from the survey: Sixty-eight percent of a survey group, including Fortune 400 companies, measured an increase in production throughput, and 47 percent an increase in profit per......
“Hyper” for Lean — Lean Directions, SME Hypertherm’s lean journey began in 1997 as a natural and enthusiastic extension of its long history of continuous improvement. Founded in 1968, the company’s “lean vision” includes training, application of 5S components, visual factory audits, single and mixed-model flow lines and the engagement......
John Teresco of Industry Week wrote a thought-provoking article on assigning responsibility of product cost to the design engineering community (and not to the manufacturing community). An expert from his article: “We in the United States have mistakenly allocated the responsibility for [production] cost to the manufacturing folks. We forget......
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