Standard cost systems have largely been replaced by just-in-time production systems; although just-in-time systems require changes in factory layouts, they significantly reduce the time it takes to move work from one station to the next, and they also reduce the number of partly processed units at each work station, thereby requiring greater station-to-station coordination.
Since it started with the notion of a great station in the Farley, that's what the public should get".
"It is the greatest station building, ever," declares architect John McAslan, who is not shy of speaking things as he sees them, and it is certainly impressive.
But in that same era even little railroad stations still were manned; perhaps the stationmaster telegraphed word of our plight to Alton and had my parents paged in the echoing great station.
The film quotes a certain New York daily newspaper — O.K., this one — on the occasion of the terminal's opening in 1913: "Without exception, it is not only the greatest station in the United States, but the greatest station of any type in the world".
They were born to immeasurable wealth and great station; they behaved accordingly, in that way no different psychologically from the peasants who numbly pushed plows and existed on porridge.
It was four o'clock on Friday, and the great station was athrong with citizens on their way somewhere, laden with baggage and precious packages, shouting goodbyes and greetings, flagging their arms, embracing, gripping each other with pleasure.
This great station has become a grim shambles of shameful, cheapjack alterations but the wave-form canopy of the new western concourse will be the most striking piece of British railway architecture since the marvellously crafted articulations of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw's Eurostar concourse at Waterloo in the 1990s.
"I didn't buy this building in 1983 and say, 'Just think -- in 21 years, I'm going to be chairman of the M.T.A. and there's going to be a great station".' Gene Russianoff, the staff attorney of the New York Public Interest Research Group Straphangers Campaign, said he was convinced that Mr. Kalikow had kept an appropriate distance.
While for-pay radio may sound like a dumb idea, anyone who spends a lot of time driving can attest to the frustration of losing the signal of a great station as the drive wears on.
"New York City has a tradition of great stations.
