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With plant 750 one of the big production problems is with Detroit Chassis and MoRryde. Detroit Chassis supplies seven different chassis (length and weight) to MORryde for modification to Thor specifications. The chassis are ordered one calendar year before that model year starts. MORryde must have a tooling jig for each floor plan and the prototype for that floor plan must be approved by Thor plant 750 before a particular style and type of chassis is approved for production. Plant 750 converted to batch production in 2018. Thor MC does not does not produce any coaches that are not dealer ordered and the coaches must be payed for, in full, before the coaches leave the factory lot. So the production of a coach starts a year before Thor ever receives an order. Considering plant 750 finishes 8-14 coach each day in the four lines (Freedom Traveler, ACE, Hurricane, Windsport) flow management must be a big problem. I remember the stack of 600 Coleman A/C, stacked on pallets beside the wall laminating press and the tour guide telling me that was a five week supply.