[TowerTalk] Does anybody even make the antennas they advertise?

[Jim Brown]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:03:06 -0400, Roger (K8RI) wrote:

>Echonomiclly it doesn't make sense to build many ahead although 
>you do need to build enough in the off season to keep any work 
>force employed.

Yes. The latest trend in manufacturing is now build (or assemble) to 
order. But building of many products takes hours, not days or 
months. The key virtues here are zero stock (so no space needed to 
store it, people to watch it, old stock that you can't sell or must 
sell cheap); minimum cost of money -- you pay the people (or 
machines) to build it when you have orders and can ship it, and you 
send the invoice when you ship it. So you need less money to run 
your biz. And so on. 

Before this latest trend it was "just in time" -- you have just 
enough stock for a few days, and build more just in time so the 
shelf never gets empty. 

These techniques can be the difference between making a profit and 
losing money, and they allow a mfr to better compete without 
compromising quality. 

73,

Jim Brown K9YC