DCRP K100D Review

[Mark Roberts]

P. J. Alling wrote:

>Pentax doesn't warehouse much in the way of product anymore. They  
>build to fill orders.  

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.
 
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