Pål Jensen wrote: >From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Yep. It's SOP for Japanese companies (and many smart non-Japanese >> companies). It's called the Kanban system. I saw it in action in >> detail on a tour of a Dunlop tire factory a few years after the >> company was bought by the Japanese. It depends greatly on being able >> to quickly change production lines from one product to another, but in >> return you get to minimize your inventory of both raw material/parts >> *and* finished product. > >All parts assemblies on my 645n has a date printed on them; the body covers, >the circuitry boards, the chassis etc. All dates are within two weeks of >each other; most within days. It is obvious that the subcontractors >manufactures the parts as close as possible to Pentax assembly date.
No surprise. It's absolutely routine to do things that way these days. -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
