Training Now? Are You Crazy?
Institute modern methods of training on the job for all, including management, to make better use of every employee. New skills are required to keep up with changes in materials, methods, product and service design, machinery, techniques, and service. Dr. W. Edwards Deming A business acquaintance of mine owned a small machine shop back in the '70's and 80's. The last big recession, for those too young to remember. He had eleven machinists working for him. Business slowed down and the employees knew there wasn't enough work to keep everyone on board, someone would have to go. My friend called a company meeting. ...
Improve Every Process
Improve every process Improve constantly and forever every process for planning, production, and service. Search continually for problems in order to improve every activity in the company, to improve quality and productivity, and thus to constantly decrease costs. Institute innovation and constant improvement of product, service, and process. It is management's job to work continually on the system (design, incoming materials, maintenance, improvement of machines, supervision, training, retraining). Dr. W. Edward Deming Improve constantly and forever, Wow, that is a tall order. Larger companies are able to staff for improvement, but what can the little guy do? The first step is to prioritize, go ...
Constancy of Purpose
Constancy of purpose Create constancy of purpose for continual improvement of products and service to society, allocating resources to provide for long range needs rather than only short term profitability, with a plan to become competitive, to stay in business, and to provide jobs. Dr. W. Edward Deming How do you create constancy of purpose in an economic time like this? Companies are struggling to stay in business and there are two places to put every dollar of resources so what do you do? First you figure out how to keep the clients you have. That means understanding what makes you different from ...
ISO 9000 is a Change to a Healthy Life Style, Not a Crash Diet
ISO 9000 is a change in the way everyone in the company thinks and behaves. It is not easy to implement correctly and it is very easy to back slide into the old way of doing things. Think of ISO as a corporate change to healthy living from a junk-food junky. Ninety-nine percent of people don’t get up off the couch dust off the potato chip crumbs and start running five miles while munching on tofu. Most people get on the scale and come to the realization they have to make a change. They may start out with a crash diet ...
Don’t Skip the Good Stuff – ISO 9001
Most clients I work with start reading the standard at section 1 “Scope”. This is a significant miss-step. The really good stuff starts back at the beginning in the Introduction. Pick up a copy of ISO 9000 and turn to section “0.1 General” (If you don’t have a copy go to http://www.asq.org/books-and-publications.html and buy it.) Now read the very first line, “The adoption of a quality management system should be a strategic decision of an organization.” Think about this, implementing ISO 9000 should provide a long-term benefit to the organization. It is not just a plaque on the wall and ...
ISO 9000 is a Change to a Healthy Life Style, Not a Crash Diet
ISO 9000 is a change in the way everyone in the company thinks and behaves. It is not easy to implement correctly and it is very easy to back slide into the old way of doing things.Think of ISO as a corporate change to healthy living from a junk-food junky. Ninety-nine percent of people don’t get up off the couch dust off the potato chip crumbs and start running five miles while munching on tofu.
Most people get on the scale and come to the realization they have to make a change. They may start out with a crash diet or they may add a walk to their daily routine, the diet may make a big impact in the short term with disastrous long term results while starting a reasonable exercise program will create gradual improvement your need for long term good health.
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End Lowest Tender Contracts
End the practice of awarding business solely on the basis of price tag. Instead require meaningful measures of quality along with price. Reduce the number of suppliers for the same item by eliminating those that do not qualify with statistical and other evidence of quality. The aim is to minimize total cost, not merely initial cost, by minimizing variation. This may be achieved by moving toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long term relationship of loyalty and trust. Purchasing managers have a new job, and must learn it.
Dr. W Edward Deming
We all do it. We go to a grocery store and will but the item that costs a few pennies less. Our perception is "they're all the same", but are they?
A very long time ago, before generics dominated the market, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer hired me as an engineer... Read More...
Training Now… Are you Crazy?
A business acquaintance of mine owned a small machine shop back in the '70's and 80's. The last big recession, for those too young to remember.
He had eleven machinists working for him. Business slowed down and the employees knew there wasn’t enough work to keep everyone on board, someone would have to go. My friend called a company meeting. He walked in to some very tense men, each wondering if he was the one who was going to be leaving for good.
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Who We Are
Technacon started in 1986 in New York State servicing the telecommunications industry. Over time the needs of the customer base changed as did company personnel. Technacon moved to Illinois in 1990 and incorporated in 2002. The decision to actively pursue ISO 9001 consulting occurred in 2001. The company has exhibited continual steady growth in sales.
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