Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Stage-Gate”
I was recently binge-listening to a new-to-me podcast called The Engineering Commons Podcast. In episode 109, the panel discussed the process of design. In our Utilizing Design Process to Eliminate Waste and Create Custom Machinery series of articles, I discussed …
In There’s a Good Idea in There Somewhere! and The users were consulted and presented with concepts of those ideas in order to refine them. The gate group decided which one(s) to pursue based on established criteria. Fantastic! Now what? …
In There’s a Good Idea in There Somewhere! we explored the concept of idea discovery and generation as the first phase of the idea-to-launch (I2L) process for developing custom equipment that reduces or eliminates ‘blind waste’ in manufacturing. In this installment, …
By now most CEOs, CFOs, and manufacturing executives have heard of 5S, Six Sigma, lean manufacturing and the mnemonics TIMWOOD and WORMPIT. Why are they important? WASTE! The 5-letter word that haunts every business. Why is waste harmful to an …
