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To: longnshort who wrote (702257)	3/3/2013 5:53:07 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) of 1578042

Ok, let's take your little just-so story at face value. Let us assume all of the quality problems at the time was because of sabotage by union workers. What kind of poor work conditions would lead that to happen? And that is directly at the feet of management. But, your story doesn't hold water. Many of the things you describe would be caught at the various inspections the cars went through before shipment. Not all, but a lot of them. So on that basis it just doesn't make sense. From the view point of W. Edwards Deming, it doesn't make sense either. He had experience with American manufacturing techniques during WWII and made a career out of how to fix a lot of the problems. But, American companies, especially the American auto industry didn't listen. But the Japanese did. Later, Ford did when they were failing in the late 1970s. But, after listening to Deming, they soon became more profitable than their other American rivals. Deming considered 85% of quality problems are due to management, Ford didn't. When they changed things, turned out they were wrong and Deming was right.

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