Words from Ron Hollis

Quickparts has proudly been responsible for doing many 1st in our industry. We invented online instant quoting, changed the way a customer expects to be treated, and optimized the business model that is a win for the customer, manufacturer and the shareholders.

Part of our culture is to always be changing and pushing the leading [...]

Here is the latest published blog in PDD…..
http://www.pddnet.com/column-dr-ron-hollis-10-years-ago-a-paradigm-shift-began-020510/
I guess this makes this a blog within a blog?
Ron

Quickparts.com (www.quickparts.com) has launched a new video series starring Johnny Quickparts. He will be sharing his adventures in product development. Johnny is the star engineer in Better Be Running! Tools to Drive Design Success, an “almost” best selling book on product development and manufacturing.
A video series with a common character is a very unique approach [...]

This week marks the 10 year anniversary of a major paradigm shift in the manufacturing world. January 3, 2000 was the first business day when a designer could sit at his desk, go to to a website, upload his design data for his custom parts and get a quote INSTANTLY and then buy his parts [...]

We begin the strategic planning season each year around September. This begins with an offsite of the strategy team to challenge the business from an external perspective. From there, we methodically dive deeper and deeper into all aspects of the business. We are seeking strategic opportunities from the Corporate perspective to continuous improvement in the [...]

I was at the World Business Forum in NYC last week where there was much discussion on the “health” of your company. Particularly insightful was Pat Lencioni, who did a great job. The key point was that many companies that are surviving in today’s economy probably have the business side of their business working. This [...]

“We don’t make anything in this country anymore.” I heard a guy say this morning at Starbucks.
It begs the question “Is that true?” and “Who is the biggest manufacturing country?”   It’s China, right? WRONG! Regardless of the pity parties of the media on how China is the big manufacturing monster and even the new classification [...]

Does the typical mechanical engineer understand the manufacturing process for the parts they design? Do they truly understand plastic injection molding? Do they realize the science and art of designing parts that can be reliably AND economically produced? Amazingly, my experience is that most engineers have very limited skills with designing for manufacturing, particularly for [...]

Quickparts is dedicated to excellent customer service. Of course practically every company will give lip service to their customer service and declare their dedication to the customer. This is absolutely true as long the company can do what they want, when they want, how they want regardless of its impact on the customer. Measuring [...]