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It's not often I see something ingenious. This is one of those times. How about demonstrating the PDCA Cycle via Lego Figures! HÃ¥kan takes his
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Pete's Note: We're pleased to have Gary Netherton provide a guest post for us today. In this post, he shares a dialogue between operators around how
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We're pleased to have Gary Netherton share with us his thoughts on quality control and quality audits. He takes a common sense approach, which I
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The type of Bruce Lee training is known to be notorious and extremely difficult. At least that's the folklore. Bruce Lee is attributed to having