Welcome to “A Manufacturing Engineer.”
Welcome to A Manufacturing Engineer! This site will endeavor to have regular updates on topics related to the field of Manufacturing Engineering based on my experience. My hope is that will eventually become a sort of Wiki on the subject and will be a valuable resource for those interested.
For those not familiar with the field, Manufacturing Engineering grew out of the field of Industrial Engineering. Industrial Engineering, in turn, was developed by Frank and Lilly Gilbreth with the aim of improving the throughput of workers by making the labor easier to perform. While this is not a Quality Engineering blog, there may be many posts which discuss the work of Joseph Juran, Edwards Deming, Joseph Crosby, Taiichi Ohno, Genichi Taguchi, Kaoru Ishikawa, Walter Shewhart, Ronald Fisher, and others who are critical to the field of Quality.
Latest from the Blog
5-Why Analysis
5-why analysis is one method of causal analysis used with a fishbone or ishikawa diagram or in RCCA.
Returning After COVID19
About a year ago, COVID-19 finally caught up with me. I knew it was only a matter of time, and overall I was fairly lucky with a mild case and the only hassle was some “long COVID” effects that lingered (which ironically included lethargy). As a result, most of my time has been focused on…
Lean Lessons from the Garden
This will be the start of another series of articles: Lean Lessons from the Garden. The examples will come from the gardens at my house and my mother’s house. From these small gardens, we will discuss concepts such as kanban, takt time, the Seven Wastes, 5S, Hoshin Kanri, critical path, FIFO, jidoka, poke yoke, &c.…
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