posted January 15, 2003 02:26 PM               

Lean works great for most processes. Just don't streamline yourself into a wall.

What happened is (a plant I worked at) decided to go to a zero-inventory resin system. Sounded good on paper, but over the winter (due to snow) we ran out of resin 16 times. Ended up going back to the old system of having enough for the entire run in the warehouse.

Good luck.

posted January 29, 2003 08:37 AM               

And I’ll do this for you, for about for one-third the cost of some of these desk jockeys. I have no title except X Line Operator and can promise you nothing except a different perspective from what you have been receiving. Hands on knowledge with a little bit of brain behind it I’ve been though a lot of these floor courses, its funny you guys pay big bucks for those that have never even run the operation.???

Anyways I just read the definition of rat and it doesn’t sound so appealing so please disregard the floor rat signature. I guess the name came from the need for survival and rats have a longer track of scraping at it. I have no time to be dishonest with anyone and as for betrayals I have a conscience. But it does boil down to survival, cost effective solutions toward creating a better product that will supersede your competitors.

I’ll say this, it is very difficult to learn something until you learn it and then it becomes simple.