Can Manufacturing Improve the Design

Abstract

Chris and Fred discuss how reliability and quality is destroyed by organizations that like to have a ‘razor’ split between design and manufacturing teams. Why?

Key Points

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss when organizations see design and manufacturing functions as distinct, separate, never to talk to each other, and completely unaware of the other (this is a bad thing by the way …)

Topics include:

• Around 80 % of quality problems start with design. That’s right. Most of those ‘manufacturing’ defects come about when the design teams come up with ideas that can work … but simply can’t be built with the machines in your manufacturing facility. Whether this is being metal at crazy angles, tolerances that need to be within one-millionth of one-millionth of one inch otherwise it catches fire, heat sensitive material that is next to welds and so on.
• Manufacturing teams can only make designs ‘worse.’ Of the 20 % of defects that aren’t rooted in crazy designs, the only thing that happens is that quality and reliability is reduced from what the design team were hoping.
• But all the (other team) does is tell us what they can’t do. That usually means they are responding to your crazy design/manufacturing process which assumes the other team can accommodate it.
• Instead … the teams need to speak to each other before they design and build to know what the other CAN do. And then work accordingly, so you have no conversations where they have to tell you what they CAN’T do.
• Do you have a team that re-designs things to make them manufacturable? Then we are talking about you. Designers are not special geniuses that need no boundaries so they can innovate. They need to be real world people.

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Show Notes

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