Matt Barrow wrote:

Would you run your engine just below redline for 30 years?

That has absolutely nothing to do with running a business or a plant. The
Japanese taught us well -- the idea is called "just in time." The general idea
is that you minimize inventory and don't keep idle machinery. You *do* keep a
margin which is called "percent fill at relief" in the telecom world, but no
sane person keeps nearly 20% of their plant idle (as was the case in the early 80s).

And, yes, if I owned a manufacturing plant, I would run it as close to 100%
capacity as I could. That would make me the most money.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.