Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.
Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.
Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.
At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.