Adrian and Renaud tackle the big question of cost versus quality and how they both affect each other in manufacturing. You’ll learn common Chinese attitudes towards them, the long-term power of lean, and some achievable levers that can bring you cost and quality benefits that most businesses can implement quickly.
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Episode sections
- 00:00 – Greetings and introduction (inc. our team at CES ’24!)
- 01:50 – What do we mean by Cost V Quality?
- 04:49 – A typical Chinese manufacturer’s logic about quality.
- 15:29 – The Lean manufacturing ideal.
- 25:32 – Day-to-day keys that can give you quality and cost benefits.
- 26:38 – Do design for manufacturing and assembly
- 29:30 – Follow a sound NPI process
- 32:57 – Use good tooling and automation
- 35:12 – Staff training for avoiding defects and more
- 37:21 – Experience effects
- 38:21 – Wrapping up.
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