I visited my doc a month or two ago, and he casually mentioned his
grandparents had left their papers to Purdue Univ where I went, did not
know much more than that about it. His grandfather and grandmother were
the "Cheaper by the Dozen" family, and his father was one of the dozen.
(The house is still on Nantucket, my doc goes there now and again). I
knew about that.
Anyway, I did not know anything about this so I looked it up -- Frank
and Lillian Gilbreth were the pioneers of time and motion studies, and
were quite well known in the 20s on (or even earlier). This applied to
the "dozen" and keeping that whole enterprise going. Judging by my doc,
the whole family is quite interesting. He says some of his cousins still
live on Nantucket and are somewhat, uh, eccentric, imagine that.
Anyway, kinda interesting stuff. You can google their names and get a
lot of info.
http://gilbrethnetwork.tripod.com/bio.html
--R
On 8/7/13 1:08 PM, Scott Ritchey wrote:
The great irony here is that the Japanese learned quality management from
the US after WWII (Google: W. Edwards Demming). The US developed/used these
quality approaches for the massive WWII war production. The ironic part is
that US industry then blew off all these quality lessons after the war and
focused on just making money, which wasn't hard for the only surviving
industrial base in the world. That came to a grinding halt when the
Japanese (using quality methods learned from us) became the world leader for
quality back in the 80s and 90s. We older folks recall the 50s and 60s when
"made in Japan" meant junk.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of
Dieselhead
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 10:36 AM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] I fought the saw and the saw won
Not just good engineering, Quality Control. This is something
American car makers didn't learn until well into the '90s.
I think it was on here somebody told a good anecdote where an
American car maker paired up with an Asian one and learned about
strict quality control...
-Curt
_______________________________________
http://www.okiebenz.com
To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/
To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
_______________________________________
http://www.okiebenz.com
To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/
To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
