Strategic Error Proofing

This book illustrates how the strategic placement of 'error-proofing' devices, which is refered in this book as Success Every Time (SET), drives up industries' profits and throughput. It highlights the deficiencies of Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) and compares the strategy to the SET.

While FMEA has helped many companies improve quality by teaching them how to avoid what can go wrong, it doesn’t show how to make things go right. That is what the Success Every Time (SET) does. Developed by renowned manufacturing visionary John Casey, SET defines a logic stream for engineers to strategically incorporate no-cost or low-cost error-proofing devices to help production operators. When SET is executed completely, failure is not an option. The operators interface with their parts and tools in such a way that either the product is made correctly, or the product/process is stopped. Operators can make only good parts—nothing else. For this reason, proper implementation of SET drives higher first time yield, increases customer satisfaction, improves warranty claims, improves profits, and helps you compete. John J. Casey has published multiple articles on quality initiatives and is well recognized in the Automotive Industry. Mr. Casey is seen as an automotive industry visionary and is cited as the father of GM’s Global Quality Tracking System that was the cornerstone of GM’s 85% improvement on inbound quality over a 4-year period.

The principles of mistake proofing, long used to eliminate errors and defects across a range of industries, are now being applied in healthcare organizations around the world to help ensure patient safety, improve services, and eliminate waste.Mistake Proofing for Lean Healthcare is based on the definitive mistake-proofing philosophy and system dev

" ... a step-by-step process that can be used to help create a very efficient error-free organization that will be able to compete with the best of companies"--Page 7.

Mistake-proofing is a method for eliminating mistakes and defects to ensure that quality products and services are produced.

A POWERFUL GUIDE to help you establish a culture of defect prevention by idea creation and team engagement. It shows how the habit of Mistake Proofing can be inculcated in to the DNA of the organisation. Drawing upon several years of research and hands on experience at various companies. Filled with more than 100 explicit EXAMPLES collected from diverse companies and day to day life, organised into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers both at Manufacturing and Service environment. ‘MISTAKE PROOFING SIMPLIFIED’ provides a master blueprint for a structured deployment and tips for sustenance of the program in a very simple yet effective manner. The book will help you understand the concept and develop your own strategy for step by step mechanism for a system towards ZERO DEFECT PROCESS.

New laws, global competition, technological advances, and evolving societal values toward disability all demand the integration of universal and accessible design principles into the general practice of the design community. This growing international movement forces competitors to expand their traditional concepts of design and adopt these princip

This volume addresses the promise and challenges of employment, service roles and contexts in rehabilitation and mental health practice, developing readiness for employment, sustaining employment, and responding to the needs of people coping with a range of disabilities. The book is relevant to the education of human service professionals, and will enable practitioners to expand their awareness, understanding, and knowledge of the interface of rehabilitation and mental health.

Errors in a design process have been recognized as a major source of product quality loss. There are a number of current methods that can be used to identify and quantify these errors including the Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis and Risk in Early Design. However, these techniques typically do not provide a useful context within which to incorporate the errors identified into the design process in a beneficial way. This thesis proposes that time is a viable metric to measure the impact of errors on the design process. It presents a technique to quantify, in time, the cost of a mistake and proposes a formal approach to determine when it is appropriate to error proof design process steps.