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Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO...
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lugnet.lego, lugnet.general
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Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:47:28 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, James Powell wrote:
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Meaning that the total on the floor people in a plant is
like 8-10 at a time, plus service people. (Probably another 8-10 people).
Given a 1 min mold cycle, and 8 pieces a mold, that gives you:
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Supposedly, it’s around 7 seconds to cool and eject a new element from the mold
(obviously differs according to piece size, etc). So if you count injection
time, it’s probably around 10 seconds or so? And I believe the number of
elements produced per year is supposedly about 20 billion? Hmm. How many parts
get squeezed off in a single mold? I know I’ve seen 2x4 molds that have 8 parts,
let’s go with that for starters.
That’d be 6,944,444 hours per machine per year meaning roughly 800 molding
machines going non-stop, not including time to switch molds and to switch color
batches. So assuming 2 people per 30 machines (adding 1 to help fudge the
mold/color switching) that’s about 27 people (let’s say 30) at any given time at
the plant. Assuming 4 shifts of full-time people, that’s a total crew of 120,
probably more, plus other staff for the facility itself (executive, security,
janitorial, etc).
So, maybe a ~200 person operation all told? That sound reasonable? No clue what
wages are in Denmark vs. China-- but at a guess we’re probably talking about $5
to $15 million in Denmark, and maybe half that in China? But that’s just a
pulled-out-of-my-ABS kind of guess.
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Lego is a capital intensive operation, rather than a labour intensive one.
Maximizes advantages of working in 1st world, minimizes advantages of 3rd
world.
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From what I’ve heard, Lego sounds sort of top-heavy. Probably part of why
MegaBloks can compete so well-- a top-heavy company has lots of executive chains
and processes to go through to get a final product. And Lego’s attention to
detail and struggle to be “the best” only make it slower. MegaBloks by
comparison probably has a MUCH faster turnaround time for new products, and less
attention to quality, which is (I’d guess) where the REAL savings are.
DaveE
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