Re: Plant tours OT

Posted by Jeff Oliver on February 19, 2005 at 13:06:33 from (170.215.119.142):

In Reply to: Plant tours OT posted by Jay (ND) on February 19, 2005 at 08:51:16:

Automation is nice but no always the best way to go. There is a large tire manufacturer in this area that uses alot of manual labor ( Think about 2500-2700 people) They have another facility that is about 80-90% automated. The company decided that the one here would get the build lines up and going and he kinks worked out of them then send the work to the automated company to run because it was much more efficient.

Most of the jobs came back here because the scrap rate at the automated plant was about 15-20% and and the one here had a rate of about 2-7%.

Sometimes having people that can see something wrong and stop and correct it is better than a robot who doesn't care.

At least the machines don't have to stop and eat lunch or dinner though! LOL!

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