Re: [MBZ] I fought the saw.. NOW Quality and Production
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 Productivity, yes. Quality no. Gilbreath is the pioneer of time and motion studies, the backbone of industrial engineering for decades. Time studies and bean counters led to the downfall of merkun quality. Therbligs was the measure. Enter Dr. Deming, who really just took Shewhart's work and popularized it, and Ford's "discovery" of its crappy quality. Shewhart's control charts are one of the many tools of quality. The rise of quality led to the near demise of industrial engineering, while industrial technologists rose. Later the colleges of engineering woke up, "discovered" quality, and used their clout to destroy Industrial Technology departments in academia, thus assuring the resurgence of industrial engineering. What is left of time and motion studies became "ergonomics" or "occupational engineering" but therbligs are out Anyhow, a good primer on Quality is Walter Shewhart's book. ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] I fought the saw.. NOW Quality and Production
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
