by Derrick Barden | 26 May, 2020 | News
At the start of a project, there’s generally a mix of excitement and anxiety by the team as they embark on a new challenge. Many of us who are involved in project work thrive off this adrenalin rush because we enjoy applying our skills to overcome a problem or realise... 
by Michael Rowland | 15 Apr, 2020 | News
QCO can prompt outstanding ingenuity and problem solving in teams. At the same time, major gains often come from simple, well-known measures. This is because people commonly know where waste is occurring in their team’s work, but can’t see the connection between that... 
by Michael Rowland | 2 Apr, 2020 | News
In our last blog, we shared an overview of the quick change over (QCO) process and why it offers such value to workgroups and businesses. The benefits of QCO are well known – like reducing manufacturing lead-time, mean time to repair (MTTR), labour requirements and... 
by Michael Rowland | 12 Mar, 2020 | News
The principles and processes of quick change over (QCO) are familiar to businesses across heavy industries – yet we still find there are many teams who aren’t familiar with QCO, or haven’t taken the step to adopt it as part of their improvement efforts. Given the huge... 
by Anthony Tarsilli | 5 Feb, 2020 | News
Improvement value starts with problem definition. The first, critical stage of problem definition was the topic of our last blog. Knowing the problem – even a tight definition of it – is often about the ‘object’ you want to apply improvement effort too. However, even... 
by Anthony Tarsilli | 10 Dec, 2019 | News
“If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” It turns out, Einstein possibly didn’t say this, despite it being one of his more famous ‘quotes’. However, that doesn’t change its merit and... 
