Present Status of 11/45 Relative to Production and Shipments

This document is an interoffice memorandum dated December 22, 1972, addressed to the Operations Committee. It details a major schedule slippage for the 11/45 system in fiscal year 1973 and early 1974. The author outlines the business consequences, including lost machine shipments and the necessity of rescheduling customer commitments due to materials control failures at the Westminster facility. The document includes detailed data tables comparing production forecasts and actual outputs for Q3 and Q4 of FY73, analysis of why the failures occurred, and proposed recovery actions, such as increasing production targets to regain market share.