Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/06

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Subject: [Leica] [Fwd: Leica Newsletter -- 05 October 2009]
From: eric.calderwood at btinternet.com (EricC)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:01:33 +0100
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Apparently according to a post on the LUF Leica have two shifts building the 
M9 so maybe that will increase availablility.

Regards
Eric





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i at earthlink.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 5:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] [Fwd: Leica Newsletter -- 05 October 2009]


> 500/week = 100/day
> 7 Work hours a day ( we are in the EU, remember?) = 14/ hour
> 4 minutes per camera for aligning and putting in the sensor 
> shims.......and retesting.... if there were only 1 work station for this 
> operation....
>
> Must be more workers and workstations than we saw in that video......or 
> else, this really is the maximum capacity......
>
> As a comparison. There were only 3130 M6 Classic 0.85 cameras ever made. 
> Not bad to sell 2000 cameras in 1 pent up demand day!
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i at earthlink.net
>
> Future production is estimated at a max of around 500 per week. (they
> are after all only a small company)
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
>
>
>
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