Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You know for a fact that THIS machine is the bottleneck for lens backlog? And it is required in the manufacture of ALL their lenses? And there is only 1 in the world? I actually remember reading something on the Leica aspherical lens grinding machine, and there were at least 2 of them built, one in Germany and the other in ..Japan?... What excuse for the mechanical bodies?..... Suzie-Q is the only person in the whole world that knows how to screw in the top mount screw into a m9? Expansion is possible. It takes top management commitment, a strong fiscal plan, good marketing input, strong customer demand, training, and time. And Luck. Lacking even one of these items, stagnation occurs, markets move on, companies falter. If you must have the machine to maintain your present and future fiscal position, then go order it, as soon as fiscally possible. Frank Filippone Red735i at earthlink.net >>> Production increases can be done in many ways.....and at differing rates. Equipment and people can be added incrementally rather than all at once ( certainly a proven failure mode). <<< IIRC Leica has a lens production machine for ashperical elements that is one-of-a-kind and quite expensive, having been built exclusively for Leica. To increase capacity they'd have to get another one made for them, doubling capacity. It's not something that can be increased incrementally. Doug Herr