The key to going fast is to not go slow

摘要

The idea of a high-speed Midwest rail network based around Chicago is picking up some serious steam in Washington. Should the funding be approved, the initial focus of the project will be eliminating slow zones, where train speeds are limited to 10 mph. Why start there? Because rail experts have a philosophy that, and here I quote the Chicago Tribune, "the key to going fast is to not go slow."rnMy initial reaction to this rail expert philosophy? A big fat "Duh!!" I mean, how obvious can something be? But when I thought about it in terms of packaging lines, I realized that it contains wisdom aplenty for packaging directors and packaging engineers who remain so caught up in the need for speed as they evaluate new packaging machinery that they neglect the more important goal of eliminating slow downsrnand, worse, stoppages.