William Robb wrote: >From: "Mark Roberts" > >> 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.
Yeah, but that's because you were dealing with the *philosophy* and not the reality of it ;-) -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
