We had a lengthy course on Quality by Juran at work. Apparently part of McArthur's effort to get that country back up and running included making quality products. So he was tasked to improve their quality, and rightly did. I recall early Japanese products, a pipe wrench immediately comes to mind, sorely lacking. He obviously taught them a thing or two.
One of his ideas which makes a ton of sense is pass-fail criteria. He said if your pass fail criteria was 95%, which in itself is a pretty good grade of A normally, what you are doing he says, is creating a 5% of your gross income valued JUNK FACTORY. You deliberately feed raw materials and effort and all into building junk. Really makes you stop and think about your business objectives.
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