Guide Decisions

Posted by stephens on Nov 7, 2009 in Engineering Decisions, Tips & Techniques | 5 comments

I helped reshape and redefine automotive die standards in 1991 with five other people. We revolutionized how automotive body dies were designed and built. The dies that were designed and built up until 1992 were over-engineered and over-built. For the next decade, I feel the die standards were competitively adequate. I no longer feel that way. The standards have...

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Pepsi for a New Generation

Posted by stephens on Jun 8, 2009 in Automated Transactions, Events, Rants, Web Technologies | 0 comments

Overnight successes do not happen overnight and new ideas are sometimes not so new. While employed by an automotive OEM company in 1993, I was recruited to assist with a business process reengineering effort conducted by an outside consulting firm. My contribution to the endeavor at a macro level was to stop doing what Alfred Sloan created and do what Billy...

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