Risks

The smaller press is booked when the job is due

Risk	A tagged job finds its press taken. It then waits and ships late, or goes back to a large press.
Early sign	Tagged jobs still start on large presses, or wait more than a shift for their press.
Mitigation	The rule is to try the tagged press first, then the next size up, and never to hold a job that is due.
Impact	The hours freed fall toward the low end of our range, about $2,900 per year.

Risk	In a press too small for it, a mold makes parts with thin fins of plastic at its edge, or parts that are not filled.
Early sign	Scrap rises on a job in the week it first runs in its tagged press.
Mitigation	A tag is only a press the job log shows the mold has run in. A process technician checks the first parts in any press new to a mold.
Impact	The scrap of that run, and a mold change to move the job back.

Risk	The small jobs move, and the large presses stand idle for those hours because no large job is waiting.
Early sign	The large presses stand idle more hours per week, and late orders do not fall.
Mitigation	Whoever quotes new work is told each week which large presses now have hours.
Impact	About $11,600 per year, the press hours' part of what the problem costs.