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Six Problems with Six-Sigma
Posted by Charlie in Education, Leadership, Management, Quality Management Systems, Uncategorized on February 15th, 2010
I have taken the liberty of consolidating David C. Crosby’s provocative six part series on Six-Sigma into one heading (with six sub-heading) under the DISCUSSIONS tab
Each discussion area will have its own sub-page. When you “mouse over” the Discussion Fourm Tab, a pop-down will list the active forums. Highlight and click of the Forum of interest. ====================================================
When you mouse over the “Discussion Forms Tab“, a pop-down will list the active forums of which the QMS discussion is the current forum. Highlight the QMS Discussion and left-click to enter.
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For Openers, to generate interest, here is an abstract of the 6-part series:
Six Problems I have with Six Sigma
by David C. Crosby
November 23, 2009
Source: http://bit.ly/amd9zv
The popularity of the Six Sigma program is truly amazing. An idea that started by extending the routine process capability study from plus and minus four sigma to six sigma has spawned a miniature industry. Software, training, books, lectures, magazine article, consulting, advertising, certification and on and on. An entire methodology has developed; it is truly astonishing. Some people are making a lot of good living practicing Six Sigma, however I seriously doubt if many defects have been prevented.
It’s no secret that I don’t care for the Six Sigma idea. If you read my articles or books (my latest is The Zero Defects Option), I’m up front about it. However, if Six Sigma is what you want to do, it’s your option. As Nike says: “Just Do It.” If it pleases your boss or your customer, it would be foolish not to do it to do it.
I have big problems with the Six Sigma approach, and would not recommend it to anyone. Let me tell you why. If I’m wrong, maybe some Six Sigma belt-person will help me understand where I’m going wrong. This blog will take place in six parts, where I will tell you the six problems I have with Six Sigma.
The Apple iPad’s future shock
Posted by Charlie in Education, Leadership, Management on January 30th, 2010
Thought provoking blog regarding the iPad introduction on 1/27/2010 @onlyapplenews: MacWorld: The iPad’s future shock http://bit.ly/9sJG0L
Starting 2010
Posted by Charlie in Education, Leadership, Management on January 7th, 2010
** Welcome to 2010 **
Finally getting caught up; wrapping-up a very interesting project, completing a formal paper for submission, and finishing a myriad of those to-dos that breed in dark corners of my scheduling calendar.
The 2000’s was a bad decade, here’s infographic proof:
The Lost Decade http://su.pr/1zMmIl
Classes start on Friday 10/16
Posted by Charlie in Education, Management on October 12th, 2009
Facility meetings all this week. My first class starting Friday 10/16, then next week the schedule is Monday, Wednesday & Friday until December 18th.
Really looking forward to teaching again!
WordPress Just Made Millions of Blogs Real-Time With RSS Cloud
Posted by Charlie in Education, Management on September 7th, 2009
ll blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSS Cloud. There is currently only one RSS aggregator that supports RSS Cloud, Dave Winer’s brand-new reader River2. That will probably change very soon.
RSS Cloud is an element that’s always been present in the RSS 2.0 spec but has drawn new attention with the rise of interest in the Real Time Web. The element was just added to the WordPress code this afternoon. The implications of this big vote of support go beyond reading WordPress blogs; this is the kind of traction that new technologies can leverage to gain support in many different applications.
For the full article on the ReadWriteWeb Blog see: http://bit.ly/2M2aHL
MSC 2010 and Web 2.0
Posted by Charlie in Education, Leadership, Management, Metrology on August 31st, 2009
The Measurement Science Conference (MSC) has accepted the panel session titled: Web 2.0 & Metrology, for presentation in Pasadena, CA during the March 2010 conference. Five-six panel members will be presenting and supported by the current Web 2.0 article in the METROLOGIST; NCSLI Worldwide News magazine.
More - to - Come
Presentation on NCSLI RP-5
Posted by Charlie in Calibration, Education, Management, Metrology, Quality Management Systems on August 26th, 2009
For the Metrology Webinar, the morning of 8/26/09, As committee chair, I presented an NCSLI 155.1 Committee Report on Recommended Practice for Measuring and Test Equipment Specification (RP-5). The attendee’s discussed the EU standard entitled “Technical Schedule for Measuring Equipment, the AFNOR FD X 07 025 Guidelines, and how it should be addressed and referenced in RP-5. The recommendation is that AFNOR FD X 07 025 be place in a separate Appendix for reference.
The current status is:
- We now have a complete and comprehensive initial draft (154 pages) from which to start our editorial review.
- The comprehensive draft of RP-5 was presented at the 155.1 Committee Meeting on Monday, Jul 27, 2009 at the NCSL International Conference in San Antonio, TX.
- Incorporate the recommended changes form the table review in San Antonio. Second editorial pass on the comprehensive draft document during September 2009
- First pass editorial review by the entire committee (Members) starting the end of September 2009
- Public review for editorial comments in October -November 2009
- Final committee proof and review December 2009
- Currently scheduled for the proper vetting of RP-5 to the NCSLI Board of Director s for their meeting of January 2010
The underlying goal is to harmonize RP-5 with NCSLI RP-1; Calibration Intervals and NCSLI RP-12; Measurement Uncertainties using the same instrument examples and data.
Public review and comment copy is expected to be available in October 2009. Contact me for an Adobe .pdf file to be sent when RP-5 is available for public comment.
Web 2.0 Webinar Successful
Posted by Charlie in Education, Leadership, Management, Metrology on August 25th, 2009
The Webinar on the #NCSLI Web 2.0 Panel was presented on Tuesday morning (8/25/09) and went well. There were excellent questions from and discussions with the attendees (virtual & physical).
The PowerPoint, with link to video, is carried on my LinkedIn page at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmotzko
Web 2.0 article for NCSLI “Metrologist” magazine
Posted by Charlie in Leadership, Management, Metrology on August 5th, 2009
#NCSLI Working with the panel members to develop an article based on the results of the Web 2.0 Panel held July 30th in San Antonio, TX, at the NCSL International Workshop and Symposium. We hope to have this article ready for the next issue of Metrologist (Aug 20th submission deadline).
- More to come as this progresses -
2009 NCSLI Symposium and Workshop
Posted by Charlie in Leadership, Management, Metrology on July 31st, 2009
The 2009 NCSLI symposium is now finished and all went very well.
There were 23 countries participating this year. More to come when I receive a copy of the proceedings
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