Custom bespoke manufacturing creates production uncertainty past six months

Evidence

The firms include the following subsectors of mechanical engineering: machine tools, textile machinery, packaging machinery, mining equipment, and industrial filters. They are not mass producers: their products are large, complex, customized, and expensive. As production is to order they find it difficult to predict their requirements with any accuracy beyond a horizon of six months to a The size of the firms varies between 100 and 400 employees. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2570

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the empirical context: bespoke, to-order production with short planning horizons.