Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/15

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Subject: [Leica] Another R option (now M9)
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:59:42 -0700
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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





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