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Value Stream Mapping Outside of Manufacturing This session will demonstrate how to Apply Value Stream Mapping to various Systems in your community to help drive better improvements. Throughout the examples different forms of waste will be explained.

Cost of Quality The Cost of Quality (COQ) is a powerful way to measure the effectiveness of a Quality Management System in a single metric. This presentation will explain the basics of the COQ model and how to calculate the costs of conformance and non-conformance. One very common complaint from engineers ...

Meadow Brook Hall is the historic home built by one of the automotive aristocracy’s most remarkable women, Matilda Dodge Wilson, widow of auto pioneer John Dodge, and her second husband, lumber baron Alfred Wilson. Constructed between 1926 and 1929, Meadow Brook Hall represents one of the finest examples ...

Transfer Function Physics – Getting to Root Cause There are several structured methods used in industry that help problem solvers drive to physics- or logic-based root cause and solutions—DMAIC Six Sigma, Kepner-Tragoe, and Shainin—to name a few. However, the toolset in each of these structured methods ...