Digital Manufacturing: 7 Lessons Learned on the Assembly Line

A quick trip through time from the beginning, to the industrial revolution, to the digital manufacturing age to understand the processes and motivations behind the way we build products.

Given at http://webafternoon.com/ in Augusta, GA.

Transcript

1. DIGITAL MANUFACTURING 7 Lessons Learned on the Assembly Line @bermonpainter
11. WIBBLY WOBBLY TIMEY WIMEY...STUFF
12. THE BEGINNING
14. BASIC IMPULSES
15. BIOLOGICAL
16. ENVIRONMENTAL
17. SURVIVAL
18. WIBBLY WOBBLY TIMEY WIMEY...STUFF
19. THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
22. Rewards & Punishments SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
23. Work, consists mainly of simple, not particularly interesting tasks. The only way to get people to do them is to incentivize them properly and monitor them carefully. – Frederick Taylor “
24. JERK
26. Questioning Rewards & Punishments MOTIVATION
27. SOMA PUZZLE 2 Groups, 3 Days, 3 Configurations
28. THE STUDY GROUP A GROUP B DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 No Pay No Pay
29. THE STUDY GROUP A GROUP B DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 No Pay No Pay $1/ea No Pay
30. THE STUDY GROUP A GROUP B DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 No Pay No Pay $1/ea No Pay No Pay No Pay
31. THE RESULTS GROUP A GROUP B DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 Productive Productive
32. THE RESULTS GROUP A GROUP B DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 Productive Productive Really Productive Productive
33. THE RESULTS GROUP A GROUP B DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 Productive Productive Really Productive Productive Not Productive Productive
34. Human beings have an inherit tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise their capacities, to explore, and to learn. – Edward Deci “
36. WIBBLY WOBBLY TIMEY WIMEY...STUFF
43. 7 LESSONS LEARNED Building Products
44. JUST ENOUGH PAY Enough to Take Money Off the Table as a Motivator 1
45. AGILE PROCESSES Fluidity to Allow Quick Recovery When Things Fail 2
46. AUTONOMY We are Self-Determined & Desire to be Autonomous 3
47. The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive–and autonomy can be the antidote. – Tom Kelly, IDEO “
48. CONCURRENT CREATION Non-Linear, Concurrent Completion of Multiple Tasks 4
49. CONSTANT BACKLOG Continual Work With Ramp-ups & Concurrent Creation 5
50. PAIRING Creation is a Shared Activity 6
51. 7 GENERALIZED SPECIALIZATION Interdisciplinary Mentoring & Personal Mastery
52. INTERDISCIPLINARY MENTORING Creates a Truly Fluid & Agile Team
53. PERSONAL MASTERY Deliberate Practice + Time + Repetition = Mastery
54. JACK OF ALL TRADES MASTER OF NONE
55. JACK OF ALL TRADES MASTER OF NONE THOUGH OF TIMES BETTER THAN MASTER OF ONE
56. THE SHIFT Algorithmic vs. Heuristic Work
57. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. – Robert A. Heinlein “
58. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. – Robert A. Heinlein “ Specialization is for insects.