Thanks to Jesinternational at InvestorVillage
What I saw at Van Nuys...
Visiting family in L.A to attend "Grandparents day" at my grandaughters' school I had a chance to get
a 15 minutes tour of the Van Nuys facility...
FWIW, here is what I saw:
* Two C-1000's ready for shipment outside the plant.
* One additional C-1000, in the same area,running full blast (I guess that's the last "quality
assurance" step). The noise level was not bad... almost pleasant -:).
* One C-200 ready for shipment to Thailand in the
same patio.
* Inside the plant, I saw an operator finalizing
the assembly of a C-1000 unit. It was interesting to hear from him (when I asked about productivity)
that they were about half way through in their
improvement program : they have come down from
120 men-hour assembly time to 80 with a final goal
of about 50 men-hour (I'm quoting from memory and could be all wet--but the percentage improvement rate was impressive to me).
* Nearby, I saw another operator working in the assembly of a C-200.
* Some 20 feet away from the C-200 there was a
TA-100 just about finished...That line seems to be
in a "de-bugging" phase...at present, it takes almost as long to assemble the units as the 10
times larger C-1000...
I can not compare with the past as this in my first visit to Van Nuys...My prior visit to Capstone
some three years ago, I was only at Chattsworth.
Cheers- Gene
