儿童服装公司(3/4)-英语听力

[00:00.00]They say they're faced with unreasonable demands all the time, [00:04.10]like having to learn to operate several machines instead of just one or two. [00:08.75]Many of them think they could get an easier job for the money, [00:12.13]because there are plenty of other jobs on offer locally. [00:15.37]The reasonably healthy state of our order books gives them a certain amount of job security, [00:21.29]but they just don't seem to care. [00:23.80]How's their work organised? [00:25.61]We've changed to a "sectionalised flow" approach, which means the the machinists work in teams. [00:32.17]Rather than each machinist being assigned a complete item of clothing, [00:36.22]the work is divided into batches involving various operations, [00:40.60]each of them undertaken by one machinist. [00:43.13]As that person finishes, the work is passed on to the machinist responsible for the next stage. [00:48.21]Has that had any impact on what you produce? [00:50.97]Yes, it's enabled Catherine to introduce a policy of rapid diversification of the product range, [00:57.40]so the number of itemised clothes has leapt.