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Re: A guy like you.... Posted by Randy Thatcher [Email] (#22) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Randy Thatcher) on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:12:54 In Reply to: A guy like you...., Mike Lynch [Profile/Gallery] , Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:31:43 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I could do quite well in Detroit, but I'm not moving there anytime soon. I keep getting offers to move to Japan and China, too. For now I need to stay in CA (Wife in school, mother-in-law with health issues). I'd totally love to do some work with SAAB on this stuff, but I have a feeling Siemens or ABB are their supplier, not my company (Rockwell).
Toyota's idea for final assembly is to not let quality problems leave the station where the part is put in. They have torque tools that report back to one of the systems we put in. If the thing is bypassed, that is logged and quality checkers verify it later. Now we're tying to to the worker. The latest is to capture torque and angle on safety critical fasteners. We also do things like serial number capture of gas tanks, air bags, etc. Quality and traceability are the name of the game. I'm assuming most mfr's do this kind of thing to some degree, just not to the level of Toyota.
Randy
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