Mold builder MSI emphasizing efficiency.(Special Report)

From: Plastics News | Date: June 6, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Joseph Pryweller

It is a work in process at MSI Mold Builders Inc., a project to make over a toolmaking plant that once looked tossed together, and turn it into a model of efficiency.

Yet, for many workers at MSI's bustling site in Cedar Rapids, the company already has come a long way. With the floor layout reconfigured to put like-minded functions close to each other and with an assembly-line approach to tooling that Henry Ford would admire, MSI has made sweeping changes in the past five years.

While workers have become specialists in their tasks instead of ...

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