JIT is truly, only as strong as its weakest link... JIT is truly, only as strong as its weakest link...My position on JIT exactly.
I don’t care if you take a perfectly running tool that finalized it’s run a week ago. If you reset next run, I guarantee it won’t run again. Don’t matter same press,steel,lube, settings ect. Sometimes ya get lucky. Most times ya don’t. Truly a diemakers nightmare. Couple that with the fact the big 3 refuse to allow additional price quota’s to offset tooling issues and you can understand what goes on behind the scenes.
There have been times that we’ve pondered screwing the policy by making deliberate over runs, treating the parts and providing special warehousing to cover our butts on the next shipment.