Showing posts with label quality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quality. Show all posts

Monday, March 29, 2010

Everything old is new again




On the face of it, the headlines "GM to recall, hire new workers" looks like good news, right? Yeah no. Wrong.

I hate to rain on the parade but GM's old school "let's pump up production to sell as many of these hot units as we can" is a part of their age old problem. "We want our plant running at full capacity" gets workers accustomed to the paycheck but also means they'll be really busy and that's a challenge to quality. Is there a correlation between Porsche's recent accolades and their production numbers? Better yet, is there a correlation between Toyota's production ramp up over the last two years and its quality problems?

Monday, February 18, 2008