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That probably would be back when I was working for a large pharmaceutical company.

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I was one of the supervisors for a materials testing laboratory that supplied all the basically

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material for manufacturing and the management decided that we could switch to lean manufacturing

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so we didn't have as much stock in kind of standing waiting for being tested.

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However they hadn't kind of taken into account that the testing lab ran five days a week,

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manufacturing ran seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

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Not having a reserve of materials meant that manufacturing would then wait into the batch

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of materials we were testing.

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The amount of pressure that put on the testing lab that was very small, the amount of kind

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of disagreements we had and the lack of listening to those who were directly impacted and how

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it was going to actually all work.