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Originally Posted by julianburke
I have seen many assembly lines shut down with product almost finished to the beginning of assembly totally trashed. When an assembly line is shut down, it is shut down regardless of what is on it. If money runs out on a project, it is shut down regardless.
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Realize that the street price for a TV set from RCA about 25 years ago was about 4 times what it cost RCA to manufacture it and get it to the shipping dock of the factory building. So, if it sold for $200, it cost about $50 to make it. So the losses involved with just trashing whatever was still on the factory line really isn't that much... I used to work at RCA's old Smirnoff R&D lab, before GE bought RCA and raped and pillaged it...