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Make-to-order production is on the up. Or more accurately, companies are working harder to make their operations more slick, efficient and cost effective, and using the ideas, techniques and technologies that enable lean, agile, demand-driven manufacturing to do so. That’s among the central conclusions from a study carried out for this journal by Benchmark Research and published last month in a Boardroom Report, also produced by Manufacturing Computer Solutions magazine. It shows that an overwhelming 71% of British companies already make mostly or exclusively to-order, and suggests that not only are they extending its role, but getting more sophisticated about how
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