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Article: Improve by improvising.(production engineering)(Brief Article)
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- Metalworking Production
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Jazz, my dinner companion said, was something he'd never got into: `it always sounds to me as if they're making it up as they go along.' This Goldwynesque dismissal of a century of American cultural history naturally raised a few guffaws around the table.
But what's that got to do with production engineering? Well, improvising and responding to change is something every successful engineering business must be able to do. As with jazz, you need soloists -- people who can think on their feet, come at problems from a direction no-one else had thought of, and who are prepared to take individual responsibility. You see this at all levels, and in the past month I've ...