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This makes sense when everything is running normally, but if one of your 10 painting stations goes down for a day, every upstream assembly step is forced to run
by marcusverus 3y ago
This makes sense when everything is running normally, but if one of your 10 painting stations goes down for a day, every upstream assembly step is forced to run at 90%, since the painting step is now a bottleneck. Given the huge cost of idle capital, it makes sense to minimize the upstream impact of any given issue.
- jjk166 3y agoAnd if any one of your single stations goes down the line is forced to run at 0% speed. You add sufficient redundancy and perform preventative maintenance so the line doesn't go down. 11 car painting stations is still way easier, cheaper, and safer than building 1 station which is 10 times faster that can never go down.