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To: Jack of All Trades who wrote (5187)	6/6/2000 8:25:00 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Respond to of 5676

JoAT, my 'gut' feeling would have been that specifically manufacturing should be the sector most amenable to productivity improvements. just-in-time inventory being a case in point. btw, as the name implies, once something is "just in time" it can no longer be improved upon. this is where the natural limit lies - time. a good example for high productivity in manufacturing is BMW's assembly plant in Regensburg...it is fully automated, and there is only a skeleton staff that controls and maintains the machinery.