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The trip through our materials handling processes can be pretty rough without something to help cushion the ride.
Whether we realize it, or not, we continually insert small buffers into the process to smooth out the flow and improve the productivity of the operations before and after the buffer. However, these buffers are often too small to do the job, or so big as to be clumsy and expensive.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James M. Apple, Jr. is a Director in The Progress Group. Prior to co-founding The Progress Group in 1991, he was a Partner with Coopers & Lybrand's SysteCon division. During 1992-1995 he served as a Senior Systems Advisor with Vanderlande Industries, a major conveyor and systems provider in Europe.
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