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Hard disks are surprisingly reliable. If you think about the technology – the head floats on a cushion of air thinner than a speck of dust, or even a fingerprint – it’s remarkable they work at all. And they keep working for ages… but not for ever. As with all man-made things, especially ones that [...]         My consultancy Primilis has exhibited at a trade show! We were at TechnologyWorld09 in Coventry on 23rd and 24th November. We have attended many shows but this is the first time we had a stand of our own. It was quite a challenge to get the stand design completed, the slide show finished, and the [...] If your children keep asking “why?” over and over again it can become irritating quite quickly, often resulting in “because I say so!”. You may be surprised to learn that, in the grown-up world, asking “why?” several times in succession is actually a valid technique for Root Cause Analysis, in other words, looking at a [...] A few people have asked me recently about ‘8D’, and I mentioned it in a previous blog without really explaining what I was on about, so I thought it was time to elaborate. 8D looks a bit like one of those smiley emoticons used in text messages, but it’s actually a structured, team-based approach to [...] |
Welcome to my blog, which I hope you'll find to be an interesting mixture of real-world experience, ideas, comments and observations.
Tom Gaskell
I've worked in industry as a consultant, manager and quality trouble-shooter for most of my career.
After spending 14 years in a multi-national consulting organisation and 10 years working in telecomms design and manufacturing start-ups, I set up the Cambridge (UK)-based quality, manufacturing and business consultancy Primilis (http://www.primilis.com) in 2006. |
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