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Greetings, all --
I have been approached with an unusual request, and I am fresh out of ideas. I would appreciate any useful and timely suggestions that i could use before June 24.
Refresher: I am with an ISO 9001:2000 electronic calibration lab that is a very small department of a monstrously huge company. We are the only part of the company registered to anything. We calibrate all of the company's electronic test equipment, from all locations worldwide. Our defines QMS stops at the lab walls -- the "rest of the company" is either a customer or a supplier as appropriate.
Some other parts of the company have discovered Six Sigma and are spawning "belts" of all colors. Last week, I was approached by a Black Belt candidate who is looking for a project. He wants to do a DOE (design of experiments) project in the electronic cal lab (Why? -- I don't know). Presumably this should be something that can be done in a short time frame, study interaction of variables, and result in an economic savings.
While I can think of LOTS of things I want to do or would like to have someone else do, they don't really seem to be suitable for a Black Belt project. They are more in the line of begging for money for new standards, or doing things that take months to years to collect the required data. And I haven't had much time to think - my time is packed full of writing cal procedures and so on.
Like I said, I am out of ideas. do you have any? I have to meet with this guy on the 24th.
Graeme
I have been approached with an unusual request, and I am fresh out of ideas. I would appreciate any useful and timely suggestions that i could use before June 24.
Refresher: I am with an ISO 9001:2000 electronic calibration lab that is a very small department of a monstrously huge company. We are the only part of the company registered to anything. We calibrate all of the company's electronic test equipment, from all locations worldwide. Our defines QMS stops at the lab walls -- the "rest of the company" is either a customer or a supplier as appropriate.
Some other parts of the company have discovered Six Sigma and are spawning "belts" of all colors. Last week, I was approached by a Black Belt candidate who is looking for a project. He wants to do a DOE (design of experiments) project in the electronic cal lab (Why? -- I don't know). Presumably this should be something that can be done in a short time frame, study interaction of variables, and result in an economic savings.
While I can think of LOTS of things I want to do or would like to have someone else do, they don't really seem to be suitable for a Black Belt project. They are more in the line of begging for money for new standards, or doing things that take months to years to collect the required data. And I haven't had much time to think - my time is packed full of writing cal procedures and so on.
Like I said, I am out of ideas. do you have any? I have to meet with this guy on the 24th.
Graeme