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Materials handling in a state-of-the-art tube making facility is
streamlined to the point of leaving little room for improvement.
The seamless assimilation of the handling process into the
broader production cycle might provide the sole area for avoiding
what economists call opportunity cost: the loss of the benefits of
taking an alternative action.
A minute is always 60 seconds long, and minutes lost at the
stage of reception and presentation of the feedstock are just as
precious as those lost in less-than-efficient collection, bundling,
packaging, and transport of the output. And just as irrecoverable.
And just as damaging to productivity.
That is where logistics comes in – and where tube and pipe
professionals excel. Opportunity cost is not in their outlook.
Full-bore efficiency in materials handling is never out of it.
Tube handling
and logistics