Monday, October 09, 2006

My Lexus Goes 2oo mph-And This Is Just In The Lot!
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Some luxury vehicles on the road are customised in the plant (like GM Mazda, Subaru) with a billion combinations of the bells and whistles. They are trying what they name BTO, Built To Order with custom made vans like Volvo, the highest up. This is just for autos of this type the customer will wait two months for. Usual custmers wait just two days for a Vanna. BTO so far where they just shop for their custom van bought on the web is viable just for vans the customer thinks is already worth the wait. In theory, the big advantage of BTO is that the vehicle is out of the lot for five months. The dealer buys the IsusubuMazdaru just when the customer orders it saving huge inventory costs. BTO takes a lot more time because of such stuff as the consolidation of the orders by dealers, loading schedule of the plant and delivery, and safety control. They have a Lexus that parks itself. The stores have had this for ages, the stores are right in the lot! If the vehicles could be made on demand at the dealership with an inhouse plant, this would allow the dealer more inventory than help has help or Beatles. And it would eliminate the first two of the reasons BTO is non mainstream, orders by dealers and shipping. Economies of scale are necessary to build vehicles at a profit. This may eventually be vincable via using computerized machines at the lot that would do many jobs to make the vehicle well and vehicle templates including templates for the parts that would be shipped to the dealer at perhaps 12 day intervals, then the machines at the dealers plant would custom make the machines to order. There would usually be some parts left over, these would be shipped back to the big plant with other unused stuff. This would make it more economical for the dealers and the customer would get not as many options as the BTO of BMW, but there would be a huge saving in inventory. They now have machines that print books on demand in the bookstore like in Border's and this is sort of the same idea for vehicles, especially with the such as extrusion mold printers they may use to print a whole house in just 24 hours where it took 6 months of labor- 24 hours is 6 months of labor in Ohio! With the computers improving about the safe methods of labor this may eventually make this Regional Build To Order (RBTO) the sort of improvement for automobiles that has gone on with computation. Up to the 80's and 90's most of the computer power was in the mainframe computers owned by the big R and D whiz bizzes. With the advent of PC's the computing power is hugely more in these machines. DBTO may be somewhat like this for automobiles.

P.S. I now realize you can just type in your computer to customize your machine (I haven't watched TV for years. I'd rather write you my love memos!) and then the same number of vehicles are sent to the lot. It seems the only missing box is that they would use real good simulators to even make it seem they were driving 1000 miles to where they are! These super real simulators would be at the showroom if they were trwo cher and could use inertia to make real Daisy Duke curves. Even so the use of DBTO may still be of worth if the machine was cheap, more people or anyone would be able to make and sell any vehicle, so like librarians and the web, dealers would no longer have as much influence. In the 80's I was always the new owner of a used Geo!

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How to know a good web site? Although most took a lot of labor, more and more of them are produced via computer!

They say in the US those who have it best own their own business. I'm my own boss, and I'll see to it he is aware of Outron. If I'm my own boss all my employees may earn more than me!

I bought this coat, it's lasted me a month of lifetimes, rayon's powerful stuff!

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