Time-Compression Technologies Magazine Archive 2002 (and backfills for previous years)
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Author John Connolly
Source Time Compression Technologies. v6 n5 June, 2001, pp 11-2
Abstract New technologies have created a completely different mindset in the approach to short-run production. Conventional wisdom says that if you want to make a profit, you better turn out a ton of parts because there is safety in numbers - the more you produce, the better your profit returns. There may have been a time when that was true, but short-run production is not only possible these days, it's profitable. Short production runs are becoming the standard at many companies and you may be surprised at just how short these orders can be depending upon the customer - frequently 20 to 50 articles. The idea is to manufacture finished production parts in relatively small quantities. An entire production run may be 200,000 parts, but a short-run may be 5,000 to 10,000 parts, or even fewer. Methods of tooling for short-run production can be conventional machined tooling - often aluminum - or a non-conventional approach such as bridge tooling. But short-runs and a staff geared for speed are what it takes to compete today. XX
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