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ficient production of Good MSF/hour from the corrugator. Leaders can challenge converting speeds and/or elimi- nate non-capital reasons for lower than speed operation; purchase capital to enhance blank sizes and/or operating speed; sell sheets to sister plants or the market; be cau- tious of accepting new business that restricts converting productivity. Mainline, Bander and Shipping: Has market sufficient good corrugator and converting MSF/hour but can’t get the product through the bander and shipping. Leaders can increase bundle and unit quantity, outside warehouse, increase number of trailers/decrease number of trailers used as warehouse; purchase load lifters to present two stacked units to forklift operators; purchase second main- line strapper and/or automatic hooders for produce oper- ations. Not everything is a bottleneck. Though improvements can be made, York said box plants should not overreact to false bottlenecks in connection with sales, customer ser- vice, HR, scheduling, maintenance, management, tooling, cost, stock quality, training and hot orders. “The realities of these bottlenecks in my estima- tion never go away and the quicker you as a lead- er acknowledge that and start to manage that I think the faster you stop flailing and I think you’ll have less
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