Dear coves.

I am a quality engineer in a tough environment. A product hold and line down meeting becomes a big issue and the team forgets/ over looks the risks. As a QE it becomes difficult to focus in this situation.

Can any one suggest some good practices to get arms around it.

:confused:

Dear coves.

I am a quality engineer in a tough environment. A product hold and line down meeting becomes a big issue and the team forgets/ over looks the risks. As a QE it becomes difficult to focus in this situation.

Can any one suggest some good practices to get arms around it.

:confused:

Good morning,

what kind of product r u manufacturing?

The problem I usually face is that when I speak about risks, people do not seem to understand, simply because I am not speaking their own language.

For example, when you tell a sales man about "down-time" and delay in the processing of the X intermediary product, he is having a short-circuit. Tell him about lost sales and lost bonus and he'll catch you at once.

Try to relate hazards and risks by converting down-time to money and (possibly) prison (in our country regulatory officers and judges have such an old mentality and outdated knowledge of some modern legislation, that can charge you for not acting to avoid a public danger, if you did not fix the line and the manufacture of flu vaccines was delayed).

Money is the unit people all over the company understand .

Lost sales, lost man-hours of employees, convert lost man-hours to money too.

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Get a remote farting machine and let it rip when the "big-shot " gets upp to speak:notme:
This will either get you fired or everyone will have a good laugh:bonk:

Are you the facilitator of these meetings? If so, when someone starts to go off topic, just kindly rein them back in. If you are not the facilitator, can you speak to him/her about your observations, and perhaps help them and/or coach them on facilitation techniques? And, as stated, make sure that everyone who has a stake in the meetings knows what is being discussed, try to use universally understood terminology.