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Reply by ●September 8, 20142014-09-08
On 09/08/2014 11:43 AM, tim wrote:> Seven sleepy six-sigma supervisors sauntered slowly. > > It just came to me, I had to broadcast it. >steadily spreading stultifying pseudo-statistical servitude. ;) Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
Reply by ●September 8, 20142014-09-08
On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:13:33 -0400, Phil Hobbs wrote:> On 09/08/2014 11:43 AM, tim wrote: >> Seven sleepy six-sigma supervisors sauntered slowly. >> >> It just came to me, I had to broadcast it. >> > steadily spreading stultifying pseudo-statistical servitude. ;) > > Cheers > > Phil HobbsSpeedy slam, sir. Six-sigma, by itself, seems to be a good idea. But like a lot of other things, once it falls into the hands of petty bureaucrats, it can get pretty grim. Or perhaps at least continuous process improvement. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com
Reply by ●September 8, 20142014-09-08
On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:43:33 -0500, tim <tim@seemywebsite.com> wrote:>Seven sleepy six-sigma supervisors sauntered slowly. >Savoring suspension of sensible system successes. (Trust me, I know about this stuff.) -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Reply by ●September 8, 20142014-09-08
On 9/8/14, 12:27 PM, John Larkin wrote:> On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:43:33 -0500, tim <tim@seemywebsite.com> wrote: > >> Seven sleepy six-sigma supervisors sauntered slowly. >> > > Savoring suspension of sensible system successes. > > (Trust me, I know about this stuff.) > >Stunts so psychologically stupefying, several sixers slept silently ChesterW
Reply by ●September 8, 20142014-09-08
On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:31:39 -0500, Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> wrote:>On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:13:33 -0400, Phil Hobbs wrote: > >> On 09/08/2014 11:43 AM, tim wrote: >>> Seven sleepy six-sigma supervisors sauntered slowly. >>> >>> It just came to me, I had to broadcast it. >>> >> steadily spreading stultifying pseudo-statistical servitude. ;) >> >> Cheers >> >> Phil Hobbs > >Speedy slam, sir. > >Six-sigma, by itself, seems to be a good idea. But like a lot of other >things, once it falls into the hands of petty bureaucrats, it can get >pretty grim. > >Or perhaps at least continuous process improvement.We have shipped over 2200 boxes to Corp X in the last three years, with one field failure, both center pins broken off a pair of male BNC connectors. They gave us an F on our quality audit, and a B- for engineering, for an overall D- score. We don't have enough 5whys or 6 sigmas or 5WH2's or 8Ds or Pareto Charts or responsibility matrices. We don't have anyone in charge of labor relations or anyone responsible for sustainability and conflict minerals. Meanwhile, they have 11 real quality problems that nobody is doing anything about. -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Reply by ●September 8, 20142014-09-08
On 9/8/2014 12:31 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:> On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:13:33 -0400, Phil Hobbs wrote: > >> On 09/08/2014 11:43 AM, tim wrote: >>> Seven sleepy six-sigma supervisors sauntered slowly. >>> >>> It just came to me, I had to broadcast it. >>> >> steadily spreading stultifying pseudo-statistical servitude. ;) >> >> Cheers >> >> Phil Hobbs > > Speedy slam, sir. > > Six-sigma, by itself, seems to be a good idea. But like a lot of other > things, once it falls into the hands of petty bureaucrats, it can get > pretty grim. > > Or perhaps at least continuous process improvement. >The problem with the continual improvement idea is that eventually you get down to the shot-noise dominated regime--your underlying failure rate may have gone from 0.5 per year to 0.2 per year, but how are you going to measure that on an annual basis? And of course in that unlucky year, if the Quality Commissars have their way, you're going to get fired. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
Reply by ●September 8, 20142014-09-08
On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:31:39 -0500, Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> wrote:>On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:13:33 -0400, Phil Hobbs wrote: > >> On 09/08/2014 11:43 AM, tim wrote: >>> Seven sleepy six-sigma supervisors sauntered slowly. >>> >>> It just came to me, I had to broadcast it. >>> >> steadily spreading stultifying pseudo-statistical servitude. ;) >> >> Cheers >> >> Phil Hobbs > >Speedy slam, sir. > >Six-sigma, by itself, seems to be a good idea. But like a lot of other >things, once it falls into the hands of petty bureaucrats, it can get >pretty grim. > >Or perhaps at least continuous process improvement.If you replaced ISO-9000 with Six-Sigma, I'd probably be right with you but Six-Sigma is an inherently dumb program.
Reply by ●September 8, 20142014-09-08
On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:19:45 -0400, krw@attt.bizz wrote:>On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:31:39 -0500, Tim Wescott ><seemywebsite@myfooter.really> wrote: > >>On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:13:33 -0400, Phil Hobbs wrote: >> >>> On 09/08/2014 11:43 AM, tim wrote: >>>> Seven sleepy six-sigma supervisors sauntered slowly. >>>> >>>> It just came to me, I had to broadcast it. >>>> >>> steadily spreading stultifying pseudo-statistical servitude. ;) >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Phil Hobbs >> >>Speedy slam, sir. >> >>Six-sigma, by itself, seems to be a good idea. But like a lot of other >>things, once it falls into the hands of petty bureaucrats, it can get >>pretty grim. >> >>Or perhaps at least continuous process improvement. > >If you replaced ISO-9000 with Six-Sigma, I'd probably be right with >you but Six-Sigma is an inherently dumb program.Suppose my board has a 7805 regulator. We can measure its output! What we'd need to do is measure the 5 volt rail on every unit and do Statistical Process Control. If we see a trend, we need to hold meetings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_process_control (The example about filling cereal boxes is especially absurd. Cams and pulleys!) -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
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