A lthough I don’t wish to rub salt in the wounds of my beleaguered Red Sox, their meteoric rise from last place in 2012 to a World Series title in 2013 and subsequent plummet back to the cellar in 2014 underscores the problems with speculative production. Last week, celebrating a birthday, I was offered a dish of Fenway Fudge ice cream, and was amused by the container, pictured.
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Champions?
Well, perhaps the Sox were when the product was made. Or maybe the ice cream (which, by the way, is delicious) was made very recently, but dispensed into packaging that was printed in 2013. Maybe a buyer got a good deal on a large print quantity; after all, the specialty packing industry typically likes long runs to amortize pre-prep and set-ups. Or maybe the forecast for the 2015 season augurs another rise from the ashes for the Sox. I don’t follow the team closely, so perhaps someone more in the know has a line on next season.
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Overproduction of articles on overproduction
Hi. We are pretty close to drown in overproduction, it's not only a critical point for manufacturing companies, it's a critical point for users, too. If it's convenient for manufacturers to run their lines as fast as they can, what will they do with the excessive quantity they make? I think this is the point you're raising: I sincerely hope somebody high above will be listening to you.
What about capaciity
What about capaciity utilization? If you have excess capacity, machinery and people, why not produce to stock? What else would you do with your people? What about amortizing set ups into lonager production runs1? How do you debate or argue that mentality? What about TOC, if you have bottlenecks, you need to keep a certain amount of WIP in front of non bottleneck machines?
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