Flume Quotes

When I started, I didn't have any idea of production or how things worked in footwear.

Production is something I've never come to terms with.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.

About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it.

And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons.

A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

What was worked out at Ford was the practice of moving the work from one worker to another until it became a complete unit, then arranging the flow of these units at the right time and the right place to a moving final assembly line from which came a finished product.

Well Dr. Weizmann, we need 30 thousand tons of acetone. Can you make it?.

The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I I have on a big budget film as well, but they're just much bigger.

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.

The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

We have more and more toys being made abroad with a large proportion contaminated by lead….The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has exactly one toy inspector … and the Director of the agency says that she doesn’t need any more resources.

The object of protection is that of diminishing the distance and the waste between the producer and the consumer

From a producing standpoint, I think prep is everything.