P. J. Alling wrote: >Pentax doesn't warehouse much in the way of product anymore. They >build to fill orders.
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. -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
