{"id":2439,"date":"2026-07-09T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:13:51","slug":"dans-weekly-insights-no-15-the-sme-overload-crisis-capacity-exists-time-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/dans-weekly-insights-no-15-the-sme-overload-crisis-capacity-exists-time-doesnt\/","title":{"rendered":"DANS Weekly Insights No. 15. The SME Overload Crisis: Capacity Exists. Time Doesn\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2439\" class=\"elementor elementor-2439\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d25ba1b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d25ba1b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4dfb48b\" data-id=\"4dfb48b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27f219c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27f219c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The biggest constraint for European SMEs is not capability.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s time.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Across Europe, SMEs report:<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">40\u2013120% increases in lead times<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">production queues stretching 6\u201318 months<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">no time to invest in new capacity<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">no time to qualify for new OEM programs<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">no time for documentation upgrades<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">no time to onboard new customers<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And here\u2019s the number that explains everything:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\ud83d\udc49 60\u201370% of SMEs operate at or above 90% utilisation \u2013 non-stop, all year.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This means one thing:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\ud83d\udc49 Europe\u2019s defence expansion is running into a physical limit \u2013 the clock.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If we don\u2019t help SMEs scale, Europe will lose the race against time.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest constraint for European SMEs is not capability.It\u2019s time. Across Europe, SMEs report: 40\u2013120% increases in lead times production queues stretching 6\u201318 months no time to invest in new capacity no time to qualify for new OEM programs no time for documentation upgrades no time to onboard new customers And here\u2019s the number that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}