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Reply to "How's Precision Schedule Railroad (PSR) working for you?"

This topic reminds me of a company I worked for.  They got all hot to adopt Japanese way of building things (kan-ban kits, pull inventory and other words).  New equipment was bought, company seminars held.  Shippers told supplies had to be on dock by date or be penalized, only one day inventory (reduces costs) allowed, yada yada yada.  And so everyone and thing went in with great expectations much like PSR.  Guess what? some suppliers couldn't meet demand or ship by dates, product used one of kind device with no substitutes and 2 months back orders, Had to start overnight shift to restock the floor for next day build (there went savings).   After I left I heard they were slowly going back to old way, keeping things that worked well and giving boot to rest.

Moral of story, I am sure PSR has its place but somewhere down the road RR may keep the good and boot the rest that just cant be met reasonably or economically.

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