ABSTRACT
By the end of the second year following the Hoshin, the new molding system was in place and Charleston had begun to make plastic cabinets. They’d had their share of startup problems. They had begun with the fact that no one in Charleston made sheet molding compound (SMC). The compounder they intended to use was the one near the press manufacturer, where they’d run their trials. Unfortunately, that had been in Ohio, and by the time the compound reached them it had been dry.
