DCRP K100D Review

[Mark Roberts]

Pål Jensen wrote:

>From: "Mark Roberts" <mark at robertstech.com>
>
>> 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.
>
>All parts assemblies on my 645n has a date printed on them; the body covers, 
>the circuitry boards, the chassis etc. All dates are within two weeks of 
>each other; most within days. It is obvious that the subcontractors 
>manufactures the parts as close as possible to Pentax assembly date.

No surprise. It's absolutely routine to do things that way these days.
 
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