Re: Packard Plant update....
Posted by Leeedy On 2023/2/27 12:50:15
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humanpotatohybrid wrote:
JIT depends on reliable delivery of parts... coordinating production schedules within the factory, or with neighboring factories, to minimize stored product and stagnant money.
But if you can't reliably get stuff then you shouldn't JIT that part. Part of the reason the COVID supply shortages hit so hard is because companies would JIT literally all the way across the globe, but when shipping slowed, then they had no stock.
In other words, JIT is more than "stock less stuff", it takes careful planning and a lot of inside knowledge on the production processes to not screw yourself with unexpected problems.
Yes... Packard depended (perhaps naively) on vendors to do what they had indeed promised they could do.
Yes... vendors dumped Packard in the grease. And one can blame Packard and J.J. Nance (and a lot of others) and the blame-game is a mainstay in American thinking– no matter the field.
Yes... I am very familiar with J.I.T. and how it works, having been involved in this very process during most of my adult career on the auto industry.
But the issue I was attempting to illuminate is that no critic or critique has pointed out that Packard was attempting to do this long before the Japanese. Despite the Japanese being credited today with somehow inventing J.I.T. This was a pioneering move ahead of its time– whether it worked or not For Packard. And whether it has been recognized or not.
Even up until its end, Packard was an amazing, forward-thinking company and I still give them an "A" for effort– in spite of what took place at the end and at Conner Avenue.This Post was from: https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=254435