Ooo, look what I found..
I only need like 8 for my 6cyl.
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Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 5,212
From: Hills of California
back in the 80's poor America was in a bad way due to mass production.
One company was making some type of thing that needed good bearings. Their product was failing far too often because the bearings (USA made) were made poorly and failed well before they should have.
In desperation they turned to Japan who had begin to use lean manufacturing and said "We need 100 bearings with only 4 defective bearings per lot of 100"
The shipment arrives they open the crate and find their 100 bearings....In a separate bag were 4 bearings with a note that read "we don't know why on earth you would want these but here are the 4 defective bearings you asked for."
-Gun
One company was making some type of thing that needed good bearings. Their product was failing far too often because the bearings (USA made) were made poorly and failed well before they should have.
In desperation they turned to Japan who had begin to use lean manufacturing and said "We need 100 bearings with only 4 defective bearings per lot of 100"
The shipment arrives they open the crate and find their 100 bearings....In a separate bag were 4 bearings with a note that read "we don't know why on earth you would want these but here are the 4 defective bearings you asked for."
-Gun
6th Gear Member
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 5,212
From: Hills of California
It is true its from the "machine that changed the world"
yes Japan had nothing going for them after WWII....Enter Ed Deming
He had many brilliant ideas about quality and its control but America didn't really want to hear them (dont know why) so he talked to Japan about it and they soaked it up. He had Japan's industrial machine turn a 180 in 4 years. It was now producing quality parts.
At GM it took 24 hrs and a special team to change a stamping die...Toyota developed a way to allow the machine operator to change the die and calibrate it in 10 minutes.
an essential key for lean manufacturing and quality control.
yes Japan had nothing going for them after WWII....Enter Ed Deming
He had many brilliant ideas about quality and its control but America didn't really want to hear them (dont know why) so he talked to Japan about it and they soaked it up. He had Japan's industrial machine turn a 180 in 4 years. It was now producing quality parts.
At GM it took 24 hrs and a special team to change a stamping die...Toyota developed a way to allow the machine operator to change the die and calibrate it in 10 minutes.
an essential key for lean manufacturing and quality control.
