Piano recital May 2012

by Mike Shipulski / Added 3 weeks 4 days ago

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Piano recital

Radically Simplify Your Value Stream - Change Your Design

by Mike Shipulski / Added 4 months 2 weeks ago

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The next level of manufacturing simplification will come from upstream savings (supplier's factories) and downstream savings (distribution systems). Lean's process focus is not the best way. Design…

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A Recipe for Unreasonable Profits.

by Mike Shipulski / Added 5 months 3 days ago

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There's an unnatural attraction to DFM. The savings from DFA are 12X those of DFM. The recipe for unreasonable profits: design out 50% of the parts with DFA, then for those that remain use DFM to…

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What is Design for Manufacturing and Assembly?

by Mike Shipulski / Added 5 months 2 weeks ago

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Short description of Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA). The design must change to do DFM and DFA, though some try to do it without changing the design.

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Organizationally Challenged - Engineering and Manufacturing

by Mike Shipulski / Added 6 months 4 days ago

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Organizationally, we're set up to keep engineering (red team) separated from manufacturing (blue team). We need purple people who can cross the divide and work with both teams.

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Broaden Design - what it does and how to make it (mobile)

by Mike Shipulski / Added 6 months 1 week ago

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Design is more than function. Design must be broadened to what it does and how to make it.

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