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Still no answer, but the new piece rule is nice to hear
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Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:28:55 GMT
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But Mads Nipper, the company’s chief of product innovation, worked
closely with Bali Padda, who oversees the supply chain, to devise a series
of day-to-day solutions to the paradox of constraints. Nipper and Padda
recommended slicing the palette of roughly 100 colors in half. They also
recommended cutting back on the thousands of different police officers,
pirates, and other figures in production. The team took a deliberate
approach, building on the resin-sourcing work to analyze the true costs of
each element and identify those whose costs were out of line with the rest
of the stock. This initiative, coupled with the resin pilot, helped the Lego
Group cut its resin costs in half and shrink its supplier roster by 80
percent.
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Hmmm, I thought this might be the passage in question, but I don’t see how this
paragraph infers any connection between the new resin pilot program and its
effect on the remaining colors. The only possible explanation that I can
imagine is that the old gray, dark gray and brown colors were part of the batch
that were eliminated in order for the new resin pilot program to be fully
effective. However, that’s not stated here and that interpretation is way too
much of a stretch for me to accept based on the wording above.
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At the same time, the operational team put a process in place to help
designers make more cost-effective choices. Team members devised basic rules
regarding the creation of new colors and shapes and spelled out the
requirements for ordering new materials. They also created a cost matrix,
clearly showing the price associated with each change. Once the costs of
innovation were clear, designers were urged to use existing elements in new
ways, rather than devise new elements requiring new molds and colors. The
initiative encouraged the designers to think in terms of price trade-offs
when they were developing a new item: Yes, you can give sparkling amber eyes
to your new Bionicle space alien action figure, but it may limit your
choices on its claws.
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As others have said, it’s kind of jaw-dropping to hear that this kind of design
approach was not a core value of set design from the very beginning. I’m
definitely in the camp of AFOL’s who will look forward to more innovative set
design through the use of existing pieces rather than the explosion of many new
ones whose useful applications are often limited.
Dave S.
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 | | Re: Still no answer, but the new piece rule is nice to hear
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| (...) Say what? Do you really expect them to address the issue of new versus old grey specifically in an article about supply-chain management? Really? How is it a stretch to infer that? Perhaps if you read the whole article again instead of (...) (17 years ago, 22-Sep-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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