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Practicing 3P

Practicing 3P

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Practicing 3P

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(graphics whooshing) - All right, so we are back here with Felipe. So, Felipe, thanks again-- - Thank you, Ron. - For everything today. It's been an incredible day. - Absolutely, I agree. - So I understand that you guys are looking to move in to a bigger area, is that right? - Yes, we pretty much outgrew this place, and last year we purchased a new building. It's about 60,000 square feet. So it's about three times the size of our current facility. And one of the tools we've been using, we've been using a whole bunch of cell design. We've been using different statistical tools to be able to get the plating tanks to the capacity that we want it to be. And in addition to that, we also started using a tool called 3P, which is one of tools also presented at Gemba Academy, which is Production, Preparation, Process. So what we tried to do there was we designed everything in paper and AutoCAD. So we have everything in AutoCAD,…

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