by Megan | Oct 26, 2018 | Systems
We’re going to take a short departure from our regular column on standards, to talk about techniques for managing your yard better, in the spirit of this issue on Operations. Do you have a process flow that you need to follow, but find that there are a lot of moving...
by Megan | Oct 12, 2018 | Quality
It’s no secret that I think systems will help a shop run better – more efficiently, easier to train employees, higher profits. Systems take time to implement, however. One of the conversations I frequently have is, “OK, I’ll accept your premise that it will make more...
by Megan | Sep 28, 2018 | environmental
The trucking industry has changed a lot since the days when I’d ride in the third seat of the family station wagon, facing backwards, and wave at truckers in the hopes they’d toot their big horn back at me. (TOOT TOOT!) Back then, they drove what they thought was...
by Megan | Sep 14, 2018 | environmental
While researching information for a client on a sister topic of recycling automotive electronics, I came across this article from the EPA. Rather than paraphrase it, since it was well-written and covers all the points that I would have highlighted in this article,...
by Mary McDonald | Jul 20, 2018 | ISO
Last time we talked about how to start understanding your process through some easy metrics. This time, we’ll talk about what starting may mean. The most comprehensive word to describe this would be change. Change is rarely easy; however, it is a constant (like...