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TPS is, in part, a way of configuring your supply chain in order to ramp up production smoothly. Tesla wants to ramp up production as their primary goal right
by Lazare 9y ago
TPS is, in part, a way of configuring your supply chain in order to ramp up production smoothly.
Tesla wants to ramp up production as their primary goal right now; if their supply chain is preventing them from doing so then they've funamentally failed.
> I really find it hard to believe they don't understand the TPS.
I agree, but that makes this more confusing and (at least potentially) more damning for Tesla. It's not that hard a concept; if you're running a manufacturing company but you screw up your supply chain badly then...I dunno. Maybe you're bad at running a manufacturing company? Supply chains are really important when you're doing something like making cars. And people having been advocating TPS since before I was even born.
So...it's a conundrum.
- carlivar 9y agoObviously Tesla is doing _something_ about this because what is the Gigafactory if not a major part of the supply chain?