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WIP Visibility · Awareness
Why Your Plant Floor Is Flying Blind (And What It's Costing You)
Most Ontario manufacturers are tracking WIP the same way they were twenty years ago. Three symptoms tell me a plant is flying blind — and the cost is hiding in plain sight across hundreds of small delays every week.
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