Manufacturing Quotes

• The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Systems And Processes, Kaizen, Waste

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• Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Mean, Done, Improvement

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• The world we have created is a product of our thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Thinking, World

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Important, Prosperity, Routes

  "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism". Book by Ha-Joon Chang, 2008.

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• Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

  James Dyson

  Engineering, Ideas, Together

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• Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Automation, Efficiency

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Wings, Development

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• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Good People, Systems Thinking, Good Person

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• Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.

  Kevin Carson

  Change, Order, Law

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• A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo.  Use it often.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Thinking, Mind, Use

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• The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

  Henry Ford

  Doe, Waste, Wasting Time

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.142, Cosimo, Inc.

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Long, Marketing, Quality

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.77, 谷月社

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• We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability.

  Kweisi Mfume

  Responsibility, Practice, Accountability

  "NAACP to sue gun makers". www.cnn.com. July 12, 1999.

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• The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

  Charles Babbage

  Time, Technology, People

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

  Henry Ford

  Waste, Wasting Time, Lean Manufacturing

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.142, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

  Jimmy Carter

  Gone, Produce, Goods

  Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat?  The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity.  People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Creativity, Thinking, Sweat

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.

  Evan Davis

  Strong, Degrees, Population

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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