Recent content by tgeorge

Thanks Sboyce!

I have a question about Mathlab's capabilities as well. Myself, I am looking to do some discrete event simulation, statistical modelling, global optimization, curve fitting, and other data analysis features and have it all be portable to Excel, or ideally, with "zoomability, rotatability, and...

Newly married a school teacher. Cant imagine it any other way. I had no idea that teachers and nurses were the two options provided for engineers.

Got a weird question. In trying to minimize cost, we are trying to pre certify a counting machine. Customer requirements are that machine must count all of the data with 99.8% accuracy over its entire life. Fairly strict! Since we are talking only successes and failures this nets...

Well I guess 5 days elapsed time would be long enough so as to not avoid looking like a prat by responding early. :) *Grinds Axe* I say this as I am engineer with about 3 years under me. Still kinda wet behind the ears compared to some of you old salts. I just got a greenbelt certificate...

The fact that you guys are having problems remembering things suggests placement in a specific camp. :)

I have noticed a new thing recently, universities are now offering courses on Stat Process Control and various 6 Sigma Tools even as a part of undergrad degrees and professional coursework. Even to the extent of calling them "Greenbelt Certificates in 6 Sigma" and what not. I understand that...

Out of curiosity, is your work environment damaging to your metrology equipment so that you have to perform maintenance in excess of the recommended intervals?

I like that idea myself. Mind if I steal it as well?

My old employer had an a series of processes that had too manny to count configurations for the same product. Customer X wanted 30 of Widget Y using configuration A. Customer Y wanted 30 of Widget Y using configuration B. Customer Z wanted 80 of Widget X using configuration A and 20 of Widget...

Hmm. Well to be honest, dont count yourself out this early in the ballgame. There seems to be a lot of things you need to know after college, that are very industry specific, that arent/cant be taught in college. First thing, everyone seems to want to steal trained engineers from someone...

Not a big fan of lowering production speed downstream, myself. It only serves to maks problems that are occurring upstream. I would just keep them where they are currently, and use their idle time to really gage if the improvements you are making in the lengthiest cycle time are actually...

Real wimpy book by you guys' standards. Green Belt 6 Sigma Black Belt 6 Sigma Lean 6 Sigma

Upon graduating about 3 years ago, the stuff I have used as a part of two businesses, one large and one small, are as follows, but not limited to: Small: Built a rough QC system using SPC tricks Wrote troubleshooting manuals for people operating machinery Wrote how to guides for same Systems...

I agree with CorBlimeyLimey, that is powerful news.