DCRP K100D Review

[Mark Roberts]

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 ;-)
 
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