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Tag Archives: USA
The Education System
The current topic for ASQ Influential Voices to address is the importance of the education system and the impact on the capability of employees. The education system is important and not very good in my opinion. As a kid I … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Public Sector
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, Education, learning, USA
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Manufacturing Outlook and History In the USA and Globally
I write primarily about management improvement on this blog – which makes sense given the title. In the very early days I had more on investing, economic data, science, engineering and travel. Then I created three new blogs (Curious Cat … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Manufacturing
Tagged China, Data, economic data, economy, Germany, Japan, Manufacturing, USA
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Bad Weather is Part of the Transportation System
The job of managers is to create a robust system that delivers value to customers. A system that fails constantly (fails during the continual variation the system faces) is a failed system. Bad weather is part of the variation airlines … Continue reading
5s at NASA
NASA did some amazing things culminating with landing on Moon. Much of what they did was doing many small things very well. They used 5s, checklists, gemba thinking, usability, simplicity, testing out on a small scale and much more. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Lean thinking, Quality tools, Systems thinking
Tagged government, lean manufacturing, Process improvement, Quality tools, USA, usability
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Leading Manufacturing Countries from 2000 to 2010: China, USA…
Over the years I have been posting data on the manufacturing output of leading countries. In 2010 China finally overtook the USA to becoming the leading manufacturer (long after you would have thought listening to many news sources and political … Continue reading
Posted in China, Manufacturing
Tagged China, curiouscat, economic data, economy, Germany, India, Japan, Manufacturing, UK, USA
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Looking at Auto Manaufacturing in the USA
America’s Dirty War Against Manufacturing Bob Lutz, the former head of GM, says it was neither uncompetitive wages nor unions that drove the Big Three into decline. It was a management with its eye focused on the bottom line and … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Economics, Manufacturing
Tagged cars, Deming, economic data, economy, lean manufacturing, Manufacturing, Toyota, USA
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USA Spent $2.6 Trillion, $8,402 per person,17.9% of GDP on Medical Expenses in 2010
The federal government financed 29% of total health spending in 2010, a substantial increase from its share of 23% in 2007. Meanwhile, the shares of the total health care bill financed by state and local governments (16%), private businesses (21%), and households (28%) declined during the same time period. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health care, Systems thinking
Tagged business, economic data, Economics, economy, Health care, health care system, USA
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Manufacturing in the USA, and Why Organizations Often Don’t
Manufacturing in the USA continues to do well. But it could do better. There are reasons manufacturing that could be located in the USA is not. And addressing those can increase USA manufacturing. Some reasons are sensible, based on the … Continue reading
Easiest Countries for Doing Business 2008
Singapore is again ranked first for Ease of Doing Business by the World Bank. For some reason they call the report issued in any given year as the report for the next year (which makes no sense to me). The … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, Economics, Management
Tagged Data, Economics, entrepreneur, global, Japan, UK, USA
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Global Manufacturing Data 2007
The updated data from the United Nations on manufacturing output by country clearly shows the USA remains by far the largest manufacturer in the world. UN Data, in billions of current US dollars: Country 1990 1995 2000 2005 2006 2007 … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Economics, India, Manufacturing, quote
Tagged Asia, China, curiouscat, economic data, Europe, Germany, India, Japan, Manufacturing, UK, USA
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