Re: multistory assembly line
Posted by Steve203 On 2015/1/15 12:32:32
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Nothing "new" about that kind of multifloor layout. Ford did that downward workflow in Highland Park in the 20s.
More likely I'd call this a look into the thought process of the Packard honchos. They were selfconcious about having an old plant, so tried to defend it as modern, when the layout of the plant is probably the farthest thing from the customer's mind.
And while the honchos were wringing their hands about having a 40 year old plant, they could look out the window at the equally old Dodge Main, humming away as it did until 1980, and the mid 1920s vintage Cadillac on Clark St that ran until Poletown opened, and Chrysler on Jefferson, parts of which dated back to the pre WWI Chalmers plant, which ran until 1990.
Smells of "plant envy", especially when Kaiser had this layout....but then Kaiser was losing vast amounts of money.
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HH56 wrote:
Makes you wonder how something promoted as "new" could be considered old fashioned and obsolete and needing a single story building in less than 10 years.
Nothing "new" about that kind of multifloor layout. Ford did that downward workflow in Highland Park in the 20s.
More likely I'd call this a look into the thought process of the Packard honchos. They were selfconcious about having an old plant, so tried to defend it as modern, when the layout of the plant is probably the farthest thing from the customer's mind.
And while the honchos were wringing their hands about having a 40 year old plant, they could look out the window at the equally old Dodge Main, humming away as it did until 1980, and the mid 1920s vintage Cadillac on Clark St that ran until Poletown opened, and Chrysler on Jefferson, parts of which dated back to the pre WWI Chalmers plant, which ran until 1990.
Smells of "plant envy", especially when Kaiser had this layout....but then Kaiser was losing vast amounts of money.
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