Factory Tour of the Week: Dell Computer

Comments

1. Jan Jochmann says

   8 June 2010 at 7:10 am

   I would first say what I like on this concept – it is the effort to produce exactly based on the customer requirements, which is very lean in my opinion.

   But what really struck me was the huge amount of “automatized waste” – transportation, among the steps in the whole process. From what I saw I think the % of the transportion time in the whole process time is very high.
   Now, I am not an expert in computer building, but I think maybe a concept of production cells with complete process within a cell combined with the kitting of components which is present there and some good production leveling could be more effective and would require maube the half of the space at most…

   Of course there is more to see in this video, but I have picked these two things to discuss.

2. Jayadeep Purushothaman says

   10 June 2010 at 4:43 am

   I worked at an outsourcing(software) center of Dell and what I was surprised to see senior managers and executives with no idea whatsoever about lean except what they have read in Micheal’s book.