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As a high volume/low mix manufacturer, our production scheduling was not complex, but without empowered quality leaders the president and the general manager had to spend a great deal of time running around and trying to keep the situation under control. During the first half of 1992 there had been several episodes of bad production scheduling so extreme that some departments had to be laid off for a few days to re-balance the flow of wood. To solve this problem, we posted in Production two large ...