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3d printing goes mainstream

10xLogistics

And, of course, when we were first talking about this topic it appeared to many to be "Star Wars" type conversation but I will tell you it appears to be almost mainstream now. Batch Sizes decrease to just about 1: The bane of supply chains is when you can get to 1x1 or batch sizes of one.

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What Conversations Does Your VSM Drive?

The Lean Thinker

” Of course the answer was “No.” Over the course of the next year or so past due hours slowly crept back up for unknown reasons. When a shop is behind, the management reflexes are (1) increasing batch sizes and (2) expediting. Tightly performing production systems are no different.