Re: Deming Philosophy Tie-in with Environmental Quality

["HouBlues" <houblues@hal-pc.org>]

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> Can anyone out there offer a crumb of hope that market-competitive,
low-cost mass production is POSSIBLE? OR can anyone offer specific evidence
(as with a certain factory or certain, known, currently existing certain
style of mass-production) that market-competitive, low-cost manufacturing
now exists?
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Fritz:

The best answer to your question is the video "The Next Industrial
Revolution", http://www.thenextindustrialrevolution.org/context.html .  This
film completely validates the idea that quality, sustainability and low cost
production can be synonomous.

You might also want to check out  Interface, Inc, a carpet manufacturer
which seems to be into sustainability in a big way.
http://www.interfaceinc.com/goals/sustainability_overview.html .

Robert Belew