For example, we prepare a specific plate for only two nearterm orders; ten tons for sixty-inch-wide plates and another ten tons for seventy-inch-wide plates. The setup time in the slitting department is about three hours. To slit ten tons takes less. They try to run at least a full shift on the same setup. What happens? They slit all the twenty tons into one width and then scream hell that they were not given the material for the other order. You can imagine the resulting finger pointing, not to mention that on one hand we have a very unsatisfied client and on the other, plates with no demand.
