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| Oh, I agree - bean counters have a necessary place in this world. But don't get on here and preach that there really isn't a problem without the "numbers" to prove it when any idiot who looks at these boards more than once a week can see that there are a high number of owners that are experiencing them.
This reminds me a whole lot of a Six Sigma Green Belt project that I somehow got dragged into once. We had a problem with a process in one area of the plant. The particular machine that ran this process was basically a wore out heap of junk in dire need of refurbishing. This machine was making a high number of parts out of spec. Sooooo, five of us on the Green Belt team met for an hour and a half every Thurs. for weeks and weeks and weeks - collecting and analyzing data. Guess what we found out? The very thing that we all knew already going into the project - the machine was wore out! Think of the wasted time, the thousands of bad parts made while we were "collecting data", and the money dumped into that project to come to the conclusion we already knew. THIS is why I say sometimes a person just needs to use their noggin and common sense. Now, if that machine had been in decent shape and we simply could not find where the problem was, then collecting data would have made perfect sense. | |
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