The problem is not at the manufacturing facilities. The problem has been created by poor business decisions at the Corporate level. Buying businesses at a premium and then selling at a loss. You can have a perfect manufacturing process and have 100% customer satisfaction, but if you throw it all away by making poor acquisitions, you have gained nothing. Six Sigma, kanban, root cause analysis have nothing to do with the survival of the company. We were using kanban in the 80s as a tool for stock and parts ordering. So nothing new there. Again, the problem is not at the bottom, it is at the top.
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GE's problems are all self-inflicted.
Agree. The Alstom and BHGE deals, and the delusion by JI that GE was a software company, did more damage than anything in GE’s long history. JI and the BOD were responsible, not manufacturing. Culp appears to be focusing on the arrangement of the deck chairs while this Titanic is taking on water!
Whomever the dumb@ss is that thinks appliances has anything at all to do with GE’s current situation is, well....a dumb@ss
It is always what they do, not what they say. Wait and see.
Your broken GE appliances didn't sink the company.
Who should I blame at the top for my broken GE appliances?