Thursday, September 21, 2023 | Zoom Meeting Online 6:00 to 7:00 pm Pacific
Kermit O. Taylor, Engineering Design Consultant
The problem:
Published research (National Association of Manufacturers/Industry Week 2016) has estimated an average defect rate of 2.7% in U.S. manufactured goods, and that it typically costs ten times as much to fix a defective assembly as it does to produce a defect free unit, pointing to scrap and rework costs that add 30% to production cost.
The opportunity:
Since 80% of factory problems can be traced back to conditions designed into the product—engineering errors built into the accepted design process—correcting those knowable flaws offers huge competitive economic opportunities.
The flaws in the design system assumptions:
Three basic categories of design practice cause almost all the problems that occur in production and assembly. These three categories are:
- The square root of squares formula: Engineering aims at the wrong target, resulting in missing the objectives
- Worst case tolerancing instructions: Found in both ASME 14.5 and many design guides, this practice injects unnecessary costs into designs
- Baseline dimensioning: Drafting classes teach this, but the practice results in much larger tolerance accumulations than necessary
About Kermit Taylor
32 years in engineering development and management, including 22 with Boeing. Some of his work has included:
Redesigned 777 cargo door control box structures from build-up to monolithic to reduce costs, lead time and variability
Authored tolerance analysis instructions and spreadsheets that enabled KC-46A and 767 programs to design assemblies to fit consistently with minimum shimming or rework, saving days of factory flow time.
R&D for armored family of vehicles, remote minefield detection, light helicopter experimental (which became the RAH-66 Comanche) and autonomous ground attack aircraft
Authored the instructional ebook Optimum Sigma is NOT 6 to teach engineers and businesses how to improve quality and production flow while increasing profitability
Join Us September 21st at 6:00 PM Pacific
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We look forward to seeing you there!
