@Fishmoto37:
@FieldMarshalGames:
And apparently our Factory is RETARDED. After Germany we may take the contract to a new factory.
If you go to a different factory, would that set your project timing back even farther?
Not necessarily farther back in the long run. It might be a case of adding a brief delay in the short term (in order to switch factories) for the long-term gain of having the pieces produced by a factory which delivers its goods in better time than the current one. (As the old expression goes, taking a step back in order to jump further ahead.)
Jeremy’s idea of taking the contract to a new factory sounds like it could be a good solution. At the very least it’s an option worthy of being investigated. During the past year or so, we’ve all been working from the theory that production would speed up once all the kinks had been worked out in the production process for the Italian pieces. This is a reasonable theory if we also assume that the delays to date have simply been the result of the learning process which is normal when you are figuing out for the first time how to do something new. If, on the other hand, the basic problem is that the factory Jeremy is using lacks either the skill or the motivation (or both) to do its work in a timely fashion to the desired standard of quality, then we’re not dealing with a learning issue, we’re dealing with a factory competence issue that may not be solved with added experience. In which case switching to a new factory might be the best option.
