Slaying the downtime dragon

Posted on 8 Dec 2010 by The Manufacturer

A team from the University of Portsmouth has created software which might just banish the tyrannical beast that is downtime. Mark Young explores.

You ’ll often find in fairy tales there’s a fire breathing dragon persecuting the mild-mannered village folk and it is the only thing standing in the way of the self-sustained serenity which will form their happily ever after. Manufacturing, of course, is no fairy tale. There isn’t just one tyrannical beast piling misery upon the…

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