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The tightest bottleneck sets the pace for the whole line, so yeah high volume manufacturing can get into really detailed optimization.
by jasonwatkinspdx 3y ago
The tightest bottleneck sets the pace for the whole line, so yeah high volume manufacturing can get into really detailed optimization.
- pests 3y agoYep. Even in the linked video around 3:20 the assembly makes a short 3foot trip on a conveyer. There's a cut there but you could imagine instead of walking the part that distance and back now they have half the next item already done. Looks like some are used as a small queue for the next station as well to give some slack to timing variations.
- patcon 3y agoAh just like with the "PhD student" joke in another thread: the value is likely in the "workers compensation case" savings when you can show that you did everything humanly possible to mitigate risk of injury, should there be a claim