Quoting Mike Rock :
> They just used an early version of PERT.....theirs based on
> experience, just like ours..... hundreds of years later.
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> Program evaluation and review technique
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Can't find the reference but I have read about it in SCA mode. In
modern manufacturing terms the _final assembly_ was single piece flow
(shove the frame down the line and add things as necessary, total time
down the line pretty quick but each assembly (ship) can be unique).
What you don't see is all the behind the scenes making the parts for
the frames which given a standardised design does benefit from multiple
bodies on the task, and prepping all the decking, masts, ropes, sails,
and etc. to be ready to go when the hull comes down the line. You
don't need to be interchangeable standard parts to be "close enough" on
a standard design.
Ie the sails are this size so the parts that hold them have to be
minimum this size, mast diameter will be minimum this diameter so hole
to hold it will be already minimum diameter, just have to increase a
little for bigger.. Given matched sets of go-nogo gauges you could be
pretty close with no actual measuring.
Esther
who after the car accident was amused to figure out that the hospital
cafeteria was a pretty good single piece flow, order from a reasonably
large menu and it arrived assembled and delivered just for you less
than 45 minutes later in a large regional hospital. No standard meal
time, no batching by ward. (would that my employer could do as well!)
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