Man I am glad this week is over. I am going to class get a “Black Belt” in Lean Airspeed/Six Sigma. This is not fun. In a nutshell it is using statistics to help improve a process, and knowing the right “tool” to use. It’s a 5 Month class where we meet for one week a month, then we go back and work on a “project” that each one of us has. We have to apply the things we learned during the week to help keep this project moving along. The project I am working on is to help reduce the turnaround time for a process within my Department, right now on the average it is taking 29 days to accomplish it, and I have to get it down to 5 days. Is it Football season yet, right now I have Algebraic Equations chasing me in my sleep.
Dood. :icon_eek: That makes my brain hurt just reading about it! You must be a math genius or something....
I HATE MATH!!!! Do beer drinkers and mathematicians mix?. I failed the opening quiz. I have to work twice as hard, for the next couple of months. I pass it, and I get a promotion. Then I let the computer program do all the work and and the churning out of of all the charts and graphs, all I do is collect data and input it.
UGGGGGHHHH! I hate that. Then some geek walks around the office with his chest stuck out because he is a 'black belt' but never uses it to improve anything.
I have all ready been on several teams, once as a Facilitator, and a few times as a Team member. I have a green belt right now, and I use it, A Black Belt gets into some of the bigger problems.
Yeah, there are some good information and techniques to be learned. But if the people getting the 'belts' never use it for anything but a bragging tool, what good is it? Lean principles when applied to production can be a very good tool.:yes:
It works when you have to build something new, we have to rebuild things, and almost every plane comes into us in different stages, and some planes flat out require more work. These planes have been up on the flight deck, they are flown, and they have been sprayed with salt water. The cockpits are open and that salt water spray finds into places you would not imagine. Its our job to find that corrosion and fix it.
Typhoons, and just the common trade winds. Once you get the Salt Water into the air, that mist will travel, and that Salt Water mist will destroy almost everything man made. Stainless Steel and Titainium will provide a great barrier but there is not much else out there that can survive the Salt Water environment. Stainless is very heavy, and Titanium is very expensive. Ships are constantly going into Dry Docks, and they are constantly getting repainted, that paint provides a corrosion barrier, but that barrier is under constant attack. Cars that drive in the salt do not last, they are traveling rust buckets. That salt gets up into the Cars nooks and crannies, and it sits there. It starts to eat the material that it is sitting on. When you get dissimilar Metals that are joined together, that salt water environment just aides into the destruction, it’s called Electrolysis. You will see many an Aircraft that comes back from a WestPac with Multi Colored Gray Paint. That is the aftermath of having to deal with Corrosion while under way. We did a huge Inspection on several brand new F/A18 Super Hornets along with Pictures and Engineering Investigations. Those Airplanes were then loaded up onto the Aircraft Carrier, and off they went. They did a 6 month WestPac Deployment. We took those very same Aircraft and performed that same exact Inspection. again. We are in the process of taking all that Data and compiling into a Database. We are in the process of creating a whole new Repair Process, one that will require the Navy to start sending the new Airplanes into a 8 Year Inspection and Repair Cycle. OR………… Every 8-12 Years an Aircraft has to come into MY Hanger, we tear it apart, Fix all the Corrosion under the watchful Eyes of Engineering, and we will repair those Aircraft, put them back together, Fly them, then give them back to its respectful Squadron. Just like we have done with almost 2,000 F/A 18 A,B,C and D Aircraft to date. An F/A 18 Aircraft Costs OVER 35 Million dollars APIECE!!!!!!!!!!!! Aircraft Carriers are now appraoching the Billion Dollar Range to biuld, and I do not know how much per day to operate?
Check this out!!! On coffee cups and an energy drink can! http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5231885/13809693
look in the lower right corner, it has a "STUPIDVIDEO.COM" tag,what is so stupid about that guy? He plays a mean cup
It was, I also like watching the group that rocks out on the garbage cans, I think the name is "STOMP" or something like that.
What in the hell is going on with North Korea? Does anyone believe them when they say they are going forward with threats of a Nuclear War?
I think that crazy guy in charge is more than willing to fry a bunch of innocents before he turns his land into a glowing dust bowl. It will be interesting to see how the Obama administration deals with this touchy, volatile, issue... We can make a thread for this in the political section if you would like to discuss it further.
Senor Concadoodle, I LOVES your Speedy Gonzalez with the Sproles jersey. He is so cute and qweek! Ondalay ondalay eeba eeba!
Two buddies, Bob and Phil, are getting very drunk at a bar when suddenly Bob throws up all over himself. 'Oh, no... Now my wife will kill me!' Phil says, 'Don't worry, pal. Just tuck a twenty in your breast pocket and tell your wife that someone threw up on you and gave you twenty dollars for the dry cleaning bill.' So they stay for another couple of hours and get even drunker. Eventually Bob stumbles home and his wife starts to give him a bad time. 'You reek of alcohol and you've puked all over yourself!=2 0My God, you're disgusting!' Speaking very carefully so as not to slur his words, Bob says, 'Nowainaminit, I can e'splain everythin. Itsh snot wha jewthink. I only had a cupla drrrinks. But thiss other guy got ssick on me...he had one too many and he juss koudin hold hizz liquor. He said hes was verrry sorry an' gave me twennie bucks for the cleaning bill!' His wife looks in the breast pocket and says, 'But this is forty Bucks..' 'Oh, yeah.. I almos' fergot, he shhhit my pants, too.' !!
