Comments on: Ludicrous Speed

By: Gerry Cronin

Gerry Cronin — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:57:14 +0000

Thank you Bruce; just when information overload is in its infancy, we seem this insatiable appetite to scroll for more. I love the 2002 DSL commercial "You have reached the end of the internet; you have seen everything there is to see". The concept is comical yet frightening at a time when facebook users share 2.5 million pieces of content a minute, and all of our employees may be active contributors. While we wish our new hires came with a USB port installed in their brain, we struggle with striking the balance between effective face-to-face coaching and mentoring and leveraging the electronic tools that have become the appendage of this and future generations. Data becomes Big Data, yet "less is more" when it comes to absorbing useful information (as demonstrated in the GBMP TWI training). Capturing the wisdom of David Bowie, at what point are we "putting out the fire with gasoline" by relying on TMI technology to solve all of our knowledge transfer problems? I'll ask Siri.

By: Larry Quinnell

Larry Quinnell — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:39:10 +0000

Excellent article! Thank you. With regards to the information and flow, I have three tenets:
There is knowledge (raw data capture).
There is discernment (within all of that data what is significantly meaningful).
There is wisdom (best end and most sure means of getting there). The application of wisdom is rarely a one person process, so by its very nature, it requires social interaction.
It is easy to confuse the three and to do them out of sequence.

By: Gary H. Lucas

Gary H. Lucas — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:23:12 +0000

I recently purchased an old fashioned time clock for our shop. We’ve added an in/out bar to the right edge to punch in the clock. Our engineering labor estimates are inserted as parts in the SolidWorks assembly, so they appear in the BOM. That BOM gets imported to our ordering program and gets costed there. So when the redlined drawing is returned to engineering we have captured all the important data in one place and can then update the 3D models that drive it. The young guys were aghast that we would do this with PAPER! However I expect it will still be quite a while before we can seamlessly capture this data and more importantly make everyone aware of it.

I have a smart phone but don’t get email on it as I need to actually get work done and something had to give. If it is important text me, if it is a matter of life and death call!