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Guns Germs And Steel Chapter Summary

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Chapter 35 Another day, they continue their meeting to solve the issues at the plant. Ralph explain about the chemistry theory, then they discuss how chemists invented the periodic table of elements. How were they able to classify something so vast into one simple table? Maybe this is how they can approach the massive problems of their division. Those scientists began by observing vast chaos and gradually derived its underlying order. By thinking like scientists, they must design a common framework to examine all the issues of the division and try to solve the problem. Chapter 36 They meet again, but everyone had little problem at there are so they trying to put what they did in the plant to rules they can follow. They develop a five step process of evaluating and fixing problems in the divisions. They formulate a five-step Process Of On-Going Improvement (POOGI): …show more content…

The process looks simple but tough to implement at the plant. Chapter 37 When they settle make the five step, they discuss about the problem will happen at the certain stage. Ralph give his opinion about the issues will happen at the stage 3. Then the team make review about the five steps once again. They need to make sure inertia does create any system constraints, and able to discover some fictitious orders were created to keep the bottlenecks busy. Eliminating this can free up 20% capacity, which can be used to fulfill real orders in the future. Stacey modifies the tagging system, and Alex and John plan future expansion in the market. Chapter 38 Alex want to get many more orders for the plant, because after they discuss at the plant they find out there were many amount of capacity they had at the plant. To fill up the capacity they need to get over ten million dollars of additional order to

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