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Comment on Crosby’s Quality Management Maturity Grid by Tom G

Tom G — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:39:40 +0000

Thanks Biplab, I have used it with SMEs going forwards through the stages of maturity as well as those not doing so well. I think it helps by showing not just where a company is now but how it would need to look in the future to be more mature (or less…).

Best regards

Tom

Comment on Crosby’s Quality Management Maturity Grid by Biplab Dutta

Biplab Dutta — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:06:42 +0000

Good article. This may be used as a self assessment tool of maturity level of quality management system of any company.
Thanks.
Biplab Dutta

Comment on How does Statistical Process Control work? by Tom G

Tom G — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:58:19 +0000

Thanks – your feedback is much appreciated.

Comment on How does Statistical Process Control work? by Biplab Dutta

Biplab Dutta — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:56:06 +0000

Good article”How does statistical process control works?.
Thanks.
Biplab Dutta

Comment on Continuous Improvement – Plan, Do, Check, Act by Tom G

Tom G — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:20:36 +0000

Thanks for the comments. I totally agree with your emphasis on proper root cause analysis – less experienced practitioners often try to fix the symptoms not the real root cause.

Comment on Continuous Improvement – Plan, Do, Check, Act by BIPLAB DUTTA

BIPLAB DUTTA — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:12:47 +0000

Thanks Mr.Tom G,
i have gone through the blog on Continuous improvement-Plan , Do,Check,Act after SPC.well written.you have rightly said that any one the methodologies can be adopted to find out the deviations and appropriate corrective actions can be taken.But as an implementor of SPC at our organisation we find proper root cause analysis through ishikawa diagram will lead to the major root causes even without pareto.Corrective actions of the root causes will bring the process under control.One of the steps of continuous improvement is definitely Plan,Do,Check and Act.Thanks for the blog.

Comment on How to get 5.1 audio on Sky HD – updated by Tom G

Tom G — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:41:56 +0000

Update from HD Cable, January 2012:

“This is now discontinued.

CYP make an alternative product that can be found here:

http://www.cypeurope.com/Audience/AU-11CA-HDMI-Audio-Embedder-with-built-in-Repeater.html?keyword=embedder

It’s not something we stock, but the CYP equipment is very good. They are more expensive than our older device, but will perform the same function.

It’s always worth being aware that you can only get one type of audio on HDMI, stereo or multichannel. So using this will mean no stereo TV will playback audio.

Similarly, most surround sound amplifiers have audio inputs alongside the HDMI inputs that can be assigned, so this device isn’t necessary in those situations.”

So there is an alternative, albeit at a higher cost.

Hope this helps.

Tom G.

Comment on How to get 5.1 audio on Sky HD – updated by Mike Spurr

Mike Spurr — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:41:22 +0000

Thanks Tom
I recently purchased a top of the range sony KDL-HX923 TV and a BDV-E780W wireless surround sound system. They integrate well together, except that I have to use an optical cable to get DD from Sky => although I sometimes get sound drop outs when switching between sky channels and have to got to another channel and back again to get the sound back. This is very annoying. Also, if I want to watch BBC I Player on the TV I have to turn sky off otherwise the sky sound overwrites the sound from i player source
I don,t think sky have a HDMI DD sound option on any of their PVR HD boxes, although one of thei help pages seems to indicate that they do:

http://www.sky.com/helpcentre/tv/sky-hd/picture-problems/sound-problems/dolby-digital-sound-issues/

screen shots in this official sky link show a “hdmi” sound option which I don’t have on my Sky + hD Box (purchased May 2010) do they now do a sky HD box with HDMI option? Very confusing

Any assistance you could provide on this matter would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Mike

Comment on How to get 5.1 audio on Sky HD – updated by Tom G

Tom G — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:09:44 +0000

You appear to be correct, Mike, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I found other solutions at the same time as I found HD Cable but they were more expensive – for example, Gefen: http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=3570 . I will get onto the HD Cable people and let you know what they say.

Tom G.

Comment on How to get 5.1 audio on Sky HD – updated by Mike Spurr

Mike Spurr — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:14:18 +0000

Hi Tom
The sky HDMI DD separate Box solution looks good, however, it does not appear to be still available as at 02/01/2012

Can you advise where I can get one?

Thanks