Wood & Wood Products, July 1st, 2000
THERE IS A mentality rampant in the woodworking industry. It is quite common in older furniture companies, but is also found in kitchen cabinet, millwork and other wood-processing plant. Antiquated and sometimes fatal, it is characterized by legions of similar machines and work-in-process lined up in neat rows ready for the charge.
It is a way of doing things that often results in sluggish plant through-put, long delivery dates, ulcers in managers and supervisors and frustrated employees.
This mentality usually groups machinery and inventory in the same way legions of Roman soldiers lined ...
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