On 11/21/2011 6:13 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
I am of course familiar with production-control schemes. Production must be orderly, but in my experience bureaucratic controls alone do not reduce errors: They only diffuse responsibility.
Some of us are handicapped by management uneasy with things they do not understand. Rigid and rigorous procedures for adoption of production changes are the most benign form of this; I worked as a contractor at a site where we failed to convince management that a particular approach would save them time and money. A manager unable to complete a work load in a batch window has plenty of excuses the higher-ups will understand (more work to process - we need a faster machine), whereas a radical change the manager can't explain may result in unemployment at the slightest hint of a problem.
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