The company panel. A time-saving, skilful hotchpotch

• Gilles GAREL
  Lecturer at the Université de Marne la Vallée and researcher at the CRG Ecole Polytechnique
  

Summary

The design and conception of metal-stamping tools ('dies') is an art that has long defied all attempts at simulation modeling. This explains why Cartesian organisation has been failed to control the costs and lead times of the process. Putting different experts together onto a panel creates a wonderful "hotchpotch" that horrifies the purists of rational organisation but can be a goodway to save time and money. This of course depends on how well the panel is organised.

Summary translated from French by Lisa BALLÉ.

• The entire article was written by Michel BERRY and translated by Lisa BALLÉ.

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