Compliance Is Not Waste: Reading Quality Through Lean and the Theory of Constraints

There is a conversation that happens, in various forms, in nearly every manufacturing organization I have observed over twenty-five years in this industry. It happens in budget reviews, in operational excellence steering committees, in the hallway outside a QA office, and — most damagingly — in the unexpressed assumptions that shape how an organization is actually structured and run.…

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