What is Hoshin Kanri? Hoshin Planning: Breakthrough Improvement From Vision-Driven Leadership The image most often depicted in U.S. literature on Hoshin Planning (also commonly known as Hoshin Kanri, and Policy Deployment) is that of a ship’s compass distributed to many ships, properly calibrated such that all ships through independent action arrive at the same destination, individually or as a group, as the requirements of the “voyage” may require. Hoshin Planning is more than a compass for steering the direction of your business processes. It is the strategic means of control that allows your organization to make quick turns, changes, and adjustments before you become trapped in a crisis. Success in a highly competitive world requires more than focus and direction. You must have innovation. Hoshin Planning is the means for keeping the actions and innovations of your people aligned with your organization’s strategic intent.
Media Queries Quality assurance Quality Assurance (QA) is a way of preventing mistakes or defects in manufactured products and avoiding problems when delivering solutions or services to customers. QA is applied to physical products in pre-production to verify what will be made meets specifications and requirements, and during manufacturing production runs by validating lot samples meet specified quality controls. QA is also applied to software to verify that features and functionality meet business objectives, and that code is relatively bug free prior to shipping or releasing new software products and versions. Suitable quality is determined by product users, clients or customers, not by society in general. It is not related to cost, and adjectives or descriptors such as "high" and "poor" are not applicable. For example, a low priced product may be viewed as having high quality because it is disposable, where another may be viewed as having poor quality because it is not disposable. History[edit] Postwar[edit]
A Book Apart, Responsive Web Design foreword by Jeremy Keith Since its groundbreaking release in 2011, Responsive Web Design remains a fundamental resource for anyone working on the web. Learn how to think beyond the desktop, and craft designs that respond to your users’ needs. In the second edition, Ethan Marcotte expands on the design principles behind fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries. Through new examples and updated facts and figures, you’ll learn how to deliver a quality experience, no matter how large or small the display. What’s new in the second edition? Discover new tips and tricks for browser support, take a closer look at solutions for serving images, explore the role of progressive enhancement in web design, find better methods for managing bandwidth, and more. Contents Our Responsive WebThe Flexible GridFlexible Images (Read this chapter online)Media QueriesBecoming Responsive About the Author Ethan Marcotte is an independent designer and author, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
What Is 5S? - Sort, Set In Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain By Steve Stephenson 5S is a basic, fundamental, systematic approach for productivity, quality and safety improvement in all types of business. What is 5S? A 5S (Five S) program is usually a part of, and the key component of establishing a Visual Workplace and are both a part of Kaizen - a system of continual improvement - which is a component of lean manufacturing. The 5S program focuses on: having visual orderorganizationcleanliness standardization The results you can expect from a 5S program are: improved profitability, efficiency, service and safety. The principles underlying a 5S program at first appear to be simple, obvious common sense. What are the Five Ss? 5S was developed in Japan and stands for the Japanese words seiri (tidiness), seiton (orderliness), seiso (cleanliness), seiketsu (standardization), and shitsuke (discipline). Use the following links to learn more about 5S The first step in making things cleaned up and organized. Read more » Read more » Read more » What will 5S cost me?
Getting started | Less.js Kobayashi’s 20 keys Quality Tools > Tools of the Trade > 58: Kobayashi’s 20 keys In manufacturing environments, there are many areas in which you can focus to create improvements, and systems such as the ‘%Ss’ and the ‘seven Mudas’ (wastes) can help you to find a focus for improvements. Iwao Kobayashi has created a somewhat longer list that include these and more, and can be used in manufacturing audits. It reads very much like a ‘whos who’ of manufacturing innovations and hence makes a very useful checklist.These are: 1. Clean and tidy. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. This is a useful list, but of course it still does not include everything. Reference: Iwao Kobayashi, 20 Keys to Workplace Improvement, Productivity Press, Portland, 1995 Next time: Basic Kanban This article first appeared in Quality World, the journal of the Chartered Quality Institute See also:
A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do | CSS-Tricks By Chris Coyier On June 13, 2011 It's pretty amazing what you can do with the pseudo elements ::before and ::after. For every element on the page, you get two more free ones that you can do just about anything another HTML element could do. They unlock a whole lot of interesting design possibilities without negatively affecting the semantics of your markup. Here's a whole bunch of those amazing things. A roundup, if you will. #Give you multiple background canvases Because you can absolutely position pseudo elements relative to their parent element, you can think of them as two extra layers to play with for every element. #Expand the number of shapes you can make with a single element All of the shapes above and many more can be created with a single element, which makes them actually practical. Here's an example of a six-pointed star: #Show URL's of links in printed web pages #Clear floats #Simulate float: center; #Label blocks of code with the language it is in #Create an entire icon set