Peter,
Thanks for your guidance and advice.
You discussed this with me and Tom during your trip and the information is very well passed down to ALL concerned here .
While on this, let me make clear for information of all concerned: WE NEVER EVEN ONE TIME CAST HYDROCLAVE OR WATER BATHS WITHOUT FULL LOAD FOR YEARS . This means ' order or no order' OR ' PO or no PO' OR 'contract or no contract', hydroclave or water bath is ALWAYS cast with FULL LOAD .
The issue we face currently is this : With ONE hydroclave and one water bath ( and another smalll water bath ) our casting capacity was the ONLY limitation preventing us from building inventories.
Having said this, WHENEVER THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY of additional panels in one load, we ALWAYS used to cast panels for inventory. However this was in rare cases with orders in hand for last few years .
To put in another way, NEVER A HYDROCLAVE OR WATER BATH GOT RUN WITH OUT FULL LOAD ANY TIME. This has been the policy for so many years and will continue to be THE policy all times ahead .. .
To repeat ; the only current constraint in building inventory is limitation of our casting capacity with one hydroclave and one water bath.
Going ahead, as you suggested, we have the possibility of building inventories with additional casting capacities generated by the second hydroclave and we WILL AND MUST DO THIS.
I know we (both GJ and Thailand )suffer a lot from VERY LONG lead times against our competition. I know many past experience, where we lost jobs with our longer delivery time... This must stop and we must compete with competition with much SHORTER project lead times..
We will send bi-weekly report to ALL listed here on our casting schedule so that everyone is completely aligned on the same line.
Going ahead, as you suggested. we hope we can create inventories with the second hydroclave in full swing.
We must be in a position to pull sheets out of the shelves and do projects as many of our competition do .. We ALL understand this CRYSTAL CLEAR..
Kindly ask me if anything is not clear or needs further clarification.