Bigger & Leaner..

I don't know if they are more like distractions, but sure they are good way of advertising. What I'm talking about is, all those colorful video projections as bill boards advertising auto centers near the freeways! My goodness, they are really huge. And Matsushita announced that it is getting business orders for the largest Plasma TV, it is planning to deliver in early 2007.

The specs are like Panasonic 103 Inch (much more than their present 65 inches I guess) with a whooping 413Lbs.... Definitely not for consumer use or may be we need some designer tables to hold that weight alone:). Well ofcourse, consumers may have to surround the TV with an Air Cooler set:)...

So, as we know, the usual concerns on a Plasma TV will be more than doubled - The heat the TV is going to generate and the static images that may get burnt on the screen. A major concern with be life span. Because, what we are talking about is bill boards and probably projections in public transportation depots, where the TV may be running for almost 24 hours!

Being, the leader of this Plasma TV market I guess Matsushita could afford to get those big ones out before anyone else! Well, at the same time they are also proving that they are yet another Japanese company with cutting edge advancements in the cost cutting processes in their factories. They are doing the max like layout changes, reduce cycle time & change over time, inventory reduction and such changes are consistently showing increase in productivity!

" It used to be 2 1/2 days into a production run before we had our first finished product. But now the first is done in 40 minutes"
-- Quotiting Hitoshi Hirata, Plant Manager from BizWeek!

They just added one more term into Lean Technology - Quick In & Out! BusinessWeek reports!