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'New handling systems help us compete'. (Ford plant at Ypsilanti, Michigan) (Cover Story)
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The project team at Ypsilanti was given a clean slate and a job to do: gut a 227,000-sq-ft plant and replace it with an efficient, competitive manufacturing operation. Make sure that the materials handling systems will contribute strongly to the plant's overall productivity. Make the systems flexible and make them reliable, and get the whole operation up and running fast.
For project engineer Terry Godzina and the rest of the project team at Ford's Ypsilanti (Michigan) plant, the best solution to the materials handling challenges was a combination of automated materials ...
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