----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" Subject: Re: DCRP K100D Review
> Yep. It's SOP for Japanese companies (and many smart non-Japanese > companies). It's called the Kanban system. I saw it in action in > detail on a tour of a Dunlop tire factory a few years after the > company was bought by the Japanese. It depends greatly on being able > to quickly change production lines from one product to another, but in > return you get to minimize your inventory of both raw material/parts > *and* finished product. I just dealt with this philosophy on a job. It cost me a 5 week delay renovating a kitchen. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
