With the improvement of production automation, there are more and more production lines that are connected in series, and the division of labor on each production line is getting thinner and thinner. As a leader, you should understand the question of how reliable the system is .
What are 100 99% multipliers?
For example: suppose that the equipment has been carefully installed and commissioned, and the personnel have been carefully trained; then suppose that a production line is formed by connecting 100 positions in series, and the reliability rate of each position has reached 99%. It seems that they are all very good, but the reliability engineering theory of the system believes that the reliability of the entire production line should be equal to the multiplication of the reliability rate of each link. What is 100 after 99% multiplication? 36%, this is the reliability of the system.
This example tells us: an enterprise and a department should not only see themselves, but consider what kind of results they will have for the entire system. People really understand this problem after World War II. Two things happened in the Second World War: One is the United States. There were 14,000 airplanes shot down during the Second World War, and 21,000 airplanes dropped by themselves. This number shocked the American government and people. Experts analyzed, This is a problem with the US aircraft manufacturing system. The second was Hitler, who ordered the manufacture of 10 V1 missiles during World War II. Either there was a problem here or there was a problem there. As a result, none of them hit the British mainland. The study found that it was also a missile manufacturing system Something went wrong, the missile consisted of 10,000 parts. 100 multiplied by 0.99 is 36%, so what is the result of thousands of multiplied by 0.99? The value is smaller and the reliability of the system is worse. Therefore, it is important to think about the problem as a whole.
Think systematically, dynamically, and essentially. This is not only a philosopher's business, but also a core issue that every entrepreneur who pursues success must practice.
----- Chen Sijie System Thinking: Lecturer and Consultant