article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

What Conversations Does Your VSM Drive?

The Lean Thinker

We can put in all of the lean tools we want, but if those conversations don’t follow, the system quickly reverts to the previous baseline. ” 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.