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Hi All,
If we do not count Nekko who is likely just offering moral support.
The De Von, Anna and Sarah (and a one recently hired) team on the admin side of things they are left with:
- Josh, the "parts guy", he is possibly going to have a headache soon due to parts availability but ordering 100 or 1,000 pieces once sourced is the same and will have the power of large qty to negotiate with suppliers. - Jake, QC and packing. This guy will be busy with QC if building capability increases and packing might be creating a bottle neck, the last thing one wants is to skip on QC here, as an oversight creates all sorts of issues and returns and lost time and profits and lost reputation. - Denis, Paul, Dave. (I will leave Steve out of this) these 3 guys build 35-40 units a month on average. Lets say 12 unit each/mth. . Add one engineer, as a newbie he/she might produce 6 units/mth. under Steve supervision and ramp-up within a few months, that is 12 units more. I think now Steve has someone dedicated for repairs and upgrades so the engineers are dedicated to building so maybe 15 units a month each.
My guess is by the summer of 2022 we could see 56 or even 66 units a month. this due to one/two more engineers, one dedicated packer, one dedicated QC and one free owner to supervise everything technical.
Obviously I do not know what options Steve will take. What I see is a six to nine months "crunch", starting after Steve has found his people where the waiting list will continue to grow before Decware catches up.
So the size of the waiting list increasing does not really mean the wait to get your product will increase.
In one 30 day period early 2022 they had a production deficit of +/-60 units/mth. With one or two dedicated engineers and speeding-up the QC and packaging process, then averaging that some months get more orders some months get less (and with Steve available as an emergency builder after the new engineers are trained) they are pretty much on top of the situation.
Also, there is value in having to wait for a custom handmade product.
My 2¢ :-)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Cheers,
a.
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