Cycle-time reduction: a holistic approach to increasing plant efficiency, Corrugating International, April 2000, Vol. 2(2)
All production plants deal with the same basic issues: unit costs, product quality, and on-time delivery. Successful plants manage to find the right balance on any given day. At the other end of the scale, there are the struggling operations that cope with one emergency after another from shift to shift and from day to day.