{"id":22710,"date":"2017-03-27T10:46:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/?p=22710"},"modified":"2017-03-27T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:46:18","slug":"video-a-historical-ford-study-focusing-on-continuous-quality-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/video-a-historical-ford-study-focusing-on-continuous-quality-improvement\/22710\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: A Historical Ford Study Focusing on Continuous Quality Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/qualityimprovement-leanmanufacturing-fordmanufacturing-shmulablog.jpg\" alt=\"quality improvement, lean manufacturing, ford manufacturing, quality deviation, shmula blog\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/qualityimprovement-leanmanufacturing-fordmanufacturing-shmulablog.jpg 800w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/qualityimprovement-leanmanufacturing-fordmanufacturing-shmulablog-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/qualityimprovement-leanmanufacturing-fordmanufacturing-shmulablog-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/qualityimprovement-leanmanufacturing-fordmanufacturing-shmulablog-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/qualityimprovement-leanmanufacturing-fordmanufacturing-shmulablog-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/qualityimprovement-leanmanufacturing-fordmanufacturing-shmulablog-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After World War II, quality and efficiency improvement approaches (what we refer to as Lean and Six Sigma today) made their way to Japan to help rebuild their economy. This was accomplished through\u00a0exchange trips and consulting advice from quality gurus like <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/demings-14-points-and-home-building\/383\/\">Dr. W. Edwards Deming<\/a>. From the 1940&#8217;s to the 1980&#8217;s, Japanese manufacturers quietly drove out waste in their processes, and\u00a0took these concepts to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>Their efforts slowly took hold in the auto industry, and their quality and reliability began to surpass the US automakers.<\/p>\n<p>An excellent case study was explained by Ford in the video below. Key leaders at Ford discuss their previous mindset on production quality. This focus was on producing parts to print&#8217; with an acceptable deviation. They were convinced that the parts they were producing were of the highest quality possible, because of their focus on production to print.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>However, Ford discovered that their production parts (in this case transmissions) were accepted by the customer at a lower rate and had lower reliability claims than their foreign competitors. Ford procured samples of the transmissions from the foreign competitors, and found they had less variation in measurable results, and fewer warranty claims. In all measurable areas, the foreign competitor produced a product with\u00a0much higher quality than Ford.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The foreign competitor transmissions were more capable (less variation) than Ford, and therefore performed better at the customer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take a few minutes and enjoy this historical and educational Ford video, which helps explain why Six Sigma gained so much popularity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ford Transmission Quality Study\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uAfUOfSY-S0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After World War II, quality and efficiency improvement approaches (what we refer to as Lean and Six Sigma today) made their way to Japan to help rebuild their economy. 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