[artdutra04]

This is interesting (and playing Devil's advocate here, as we're only using "standard" size cylinders), what would define a pneumatic cylinder as "custom"?

Let's say XYZ Company has adopted lean, just-in-time manufacturing practices and sells pneumatic cylinders in a discrete set of different bore diameters, but at any length from 0.500" to 24.000" in 0.001" increments. Because the company wants to minimize their warehouse stock and increase efficiency by only making cylinders when an order is placed, there are no "standard" or "custom" length cylinders (as every order is made to purchase), only "standard" bore diameters.

Would this company's internal processes as to how they manage their supply chain and manufacturing determine whether a particular item they sell is COTS or not, regardless of availability to all teams and meeting all other definitions of a VENDOR? What if the customer has no knowledge of the lean manufacturing nature of XYZ Company, as XYZ's website does not make any mention about "standard" or "custom" sizes?