EWPC: People Coordinating and Cooperating with Electrons Part 3

Reference: Playing with Fire - The 10 Tcf/year Supply Gap -- Part I

To all readers that want to learn about the third way of deregulation

To complement the posts EWPC: People Coordinating and Cooperating with Electrons and EWPC: People Coordinating and Cooperating with Electrons Part 2, in chapter one of their book, Rechtin and Maeir define ultraquality “as a level of quality so demanding that it is impractical to measure defects, much less certify a system prior to use.” On a note to the definition they say ultraquality “was discussed extensively by Juran…”

They add that “Demonstrating this limit state in high quality is not a simple extension of existing quality measures… because system complexity has outpaced instrument accuracy.”

Systemic thinking, scenarios, system dynamics, mental models are tools to help us approach system complexity. An explanation based on simple cause and effect, mechanistic thinking, is generally insufficient to explain system complexity. Those tools should be used fully, since “[a]n independent investigation is needed of all the issues raised by the blackout and other reliability problems to ascertain that all necessary remedial actions have been taken, as PEST suggest and the GMH extends.”