Description
Addressing the beliefs and attitudes that can be detrimental to your organization’s competitiveness, Popular Manufacturing Myths: Eliminating Widely Held Beliefs That Reduce Competitiveness offers time-tested insight into the most common myths encountered in manufacturing environments. It classifies these myths into management myths, shop floor myths, and if appropriate, shared management and shop floor myths.Explaining the reasons why these deeply ingrained beliefs exist, the book outlines remedies that can help to quickly dispel them within your organization. It presents case studies that examine these myths and includes numerous real-world examples that outline simple, yet effective, solutions. Some of the myths dispelled in this book include:Increasing line speed always decreases quality and creates more scrapReducing the cost of raw materials will decrease the cost of manufacturingIncreased inspection will boost qualityIf it is successful in R&D, it will be successful in productionProcess problems can only be solved by changing one process parameter at a timeCovering the basics of data collection tools, techniques, and analysis, the text offers simple methods to structure your data to assist in communicating clear and logical conclusions across the organization. The author keeps the arithmetic and statistics to a minimum, so readers only require a basic understanding of averaging and normal variation. However, for those who wish to understand a little bit more about a particular concept, technique, tool, or procedure, the book includes an addendum chapter with more detailed explanations and sample calculations.Table of ContentIntroduction to Manufacturing Myths. Expectational Myths. Data Myths. Our Process Is Different. Measurement Process Myths. Only Adjust One Process Parameter at a Time. Raw Material Myths. Addendum.Biographical NoteDouglas B. Relyea is the founder and senior partner of Quality Principle Associates a New England-based consulting firm that specializes in the education and application of data analysis techniques to industrial problem solving.Mr. Relyea has a degree in manufacturing engineering from Three Rivers Community College in Connecticut and a business degree from Eastern Connecticut State University.He spent twenty years working at General Dynamics and a division of Rogers Corporation, specializing in extrusion, die stamping, machining and molding processes servicing the automotive and business equipment industries. During his time in industry he filled positions such as first-line supervisor, quality assurance manager, engineering manager, maintenance manager, and sales and marketing product manager. Most recently, Mr. Relyea contributed Chapter 19 of the Wire Association International Wire Handbook. This chapter is entitled "Elements of Statistical Quality Control." In 1987 he left industry and formed Quality Principle Associates.
