[RKDinOKC]

Found out the manufacturing at the company I work for is doing 18 hours volunteer based overtime a week. Has been for more than a year. Every Tuesday morning they post a list of machines that require overtime to meet production quotas. They are even doing a weekly drawing from the names of those that work overtime and gifting one of them $500.

My college degree is in Industrial Engineering. Studies show that working overtime on more than an occasional basis causes enough mistakes that the increased cost and losses due to those mistake it actually lowers production. IE the more overtime you work, the more overtime you need.

It's going to be interesting when the new facility is finished. It will have robotic parts inventory management like Harley Davidson and John Deere uses. That is a state of the art facility of the 90's. Today manufacturing is built for zero parts inventory. Today each part is manufactured and delivered to assemble within minutes of being needed. And example is the seats for a BMW. BMW electronicly orders the seats only hours proir to the car's assembly, the Recaro seat manufacturer is 2 miles from the Assembly plant and delivers the seats to the assembly line within minutes of being placed in the car.