"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 23:51:44 -0000, :::Jerry:::: wrote:

"John Cartmell" wrote in message
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In article
ws.net,
:::Jerry:::: wrote:
Do you really think that paying ten people to do one mans work
was
efficient, that was British industry BEFORE the '80's!

That's what you were told. You obviously believed it. It was a lie.

So one man operating a CNC lathe or CAM manufacturing (and it's
predecessors) plant is not more economic than having ten people doing
the same work? You might not like the fact that countries like the
Japan were using such methods in the late '70's and thus selling
their products cheaper but you can't change the fact that they were.

Not if twenty men had to work twice as long to make that lathe...


Why do you make that statements? No experience in management?
Every 'bid' for work will have 'costed' the complete 'job'.
A costed proposal will say (for instance) thousand widget using ;-

method 'A' (using existing practises) = £N_1
with delivery in Y_1 months;

using method 'B' (build machine at £X ) = £N_2
with delivery in Y_2 months.

A decision will be made based on these variable and anticipated
markets and future (forecast) cost-trends..

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Brian