Hachiroku ???? wrote:
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>>> "Toyota Motor Corp. said today it would halt production at five North
>>> American plants and order dealers to stop selling eight models recalled
>>> last week over concerns with sticking accelerator pedals."
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>>> From The Detroit News:
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> Instead of 'slowing down' when an error is realized, Toyota stops >> production.
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> It beats the system we used when I was at Boeing. All the PHBs visited
> Japanese manufacturers to learn about lean manufacturing, continuous
> quality improvement, etc. And the only idea they brought back was the
> moving assembly line. Unlike Toyota, nothing stops our line. If a part
> comes in late, its up to you to chase after the plane and get it bolted
> on. This ad:
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hit too close to> home. >
> One of our assembly plants' hangar doors opened out towards Lake
> Washington. We used to joke that, if the planes didn't pass QA, the line
> wouldn't stop. We'd just push the failures into the lake.
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> IMO, Toyota has the right idea when it comes to fixing a quality problem.
> Had the carpet bug not masked the problem with the pedal mechanism, they
> could have had this shutdown some time ago.
I used to work for Hamilton Standard.
They came to me one night and said "Get 8 of these, and 4 spares, as FAST AS YOU CAN! Then give them to inspection, we need to ship them tonight."...
Hmmm..standard was 58 minutes each. Work day was 8 hours...however, the 'standard' was 58 minutes, but in reality took 25 minutes to set up and test. I had the 12 before supper.
..."the planes are sitting on the tarmac waiting for them."
They were the actuators that opened the ducting in the wings diverting some of the heat from the engines to warm and pressurize the passenger compartment.
The planes on the Tarmac were two speical order 747's, waiting for delivery for their new owner. It was 1989.
Here's one of them:
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