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Welcome to Production
The visit of the DuPont guy had been an energizing experience for Rob, in
spite of and because of the hard lessons. No one got hurt and nothing was
damaged or destroyed when there was plenty of potential for both.
Rob had been around a while, long enough to know that in production you
needed to be pragmatic. Not everything could be predicted ahead of time,
and maybe not everything could be prevented right now. However, you work
to get better. If you don’t, you get worse.
Thus, Rob’s agenda now was to get ahead of the game. Find out what was
going on in the carbon plant where he hadn’t yet set foot as production man-
ager ...