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Of course, you can build more tracks and there are places in the Netherlands where it would be easy to do this, but in areas like the Randstad conurbation, where extra capacity is needed most, it’s going to be difficult,” said Pier Eringa, CEO of ProRail in an article on the railway’s efforts to boost capacity and speed.
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Or maybe you need to increase your capacity while holding your costs (vs. In this working example, asking the shop floor workforce to fix this problem would be futile. ” Of course the answer was “No.” The shop floor can’t, for example, transition from a push scheduling system to pull on their own.
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