Assembly - January 2009 - (Page 26) Assembly Lines Inventions New facilities Mergers The delay comes in the wake of multiple delays in Boeing’s 787 program, which is now two years behind schedule. In a sign of how much disruption the machinists’ strike caused, Boeing delivered a mere four airplanes in November. Boeing’s 747 Freighter Also Behind Schedule EVERETT, WA—Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner program is not the only one behind schedule. The company recently announced that its 747-8 freighter, originally scheduled to go into service at the end of 2009, will now have to wait until the third quarter of 2010. According to Boeing, the delay is the result of supply chain problems driven by design changes to EFD Inc. Opens New Plant The Boston Consulting Group Inc. is teaming up with ASSEMBLY magazine to help broaden the reach of the annual Assembly Plant of the Year award. The IBM High-End Server Plant in Poughkeepsie, NY, won the award in 2008. Photo courtesy IBM Corp. Boston Consulting Joins Plant of the Year Effort The Boston Consulting Group Inc. (BCG, Boston) is teaming up with ASSEMBLY magazine to help broaden the reach of the annual Assembly Plant of the Year award, now entering its sixth year. BCG is a global management-consulting firm with more than 3,000 consultants located in 66 offices. The 45-year-old company is the world’s leading advisor on business strategy, helping clients achieve a sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations and secure lasting results. ASSEMBLY magazine created the Assembly Plant of the Year award to showcase world-class production facilities throughout the United States. All manufacturers that assemble products in the United States are invited to nominate their plants. The goal of the award is to identify a state-of-the-art facility that has applied world-class processes to reduce production costs, increase productivity, shorten time to market and improve product quality. Previous recipients of the award include IBM Corp. (Poughkeepsie, NY); Schneider Electric/Square D (Lexington, KY); Lear Corp. (Montgomery, AL); Xerox Corp. (Webster, NY); and Kenworth Truck Co. (Renton, WA). Nomination forms for the 2009 award are now available on the ASSEMBLY web site at www.assemblymag.com. 26 ASSEMBLY / January 2009 www.assemblymag.com EAST PROVIDENCE, RI— Precision valve and electronics solder paste manufacturer EFD Inc. has opened a new 116,000-square-foot office, research and manufacturing facility, consolidating the functions that previously took place in four separate facilities in the Providence, RI, area. According to EFD Boeing’s 747-8 freighter program is the President Peter Lambert, latest to fall behind schedule in the wake of the move will help the last fall’s machinists’ strike. company streamline its Photo courtesy Boeing Co. operations and further its the airplane and the machinists’ efforts in the area of lean manufacunion strike that halted production turing. Among other capabilities, for eight weeks this past fall. the new plant includes molding “Our entire team has worked facilities, a machine shop and mulhard to mitigate growing schedule tiple assembly areas. Founded in risk on this program, but have been 1963, the company was acquired in unable to overcome the collective 2000 by Nordson Corp. (Westlake, impact of work-statement increas- OH) and currently employs about es to the original design, a tight 220 people. For additional inforsupply of engineering resources, mation, visit www.efd-inc.com. and the recent strike,” says Boeing commercial airplanes president Scott Carson. “We are clearly disappointed. However, it is the appropriate and prudent decision to ensure a successful program, OSHKOSH, WI—JLG Indusand we are committed to working tries Inc. (McConnellsburg, PA), a with our customers to mitigate any subsidiary of Oshkosh Corp., has disruption it causes them.” begun construction of a new plant JLG Opening China Factory http://www.efd-inc.com http://www.assemblymag.com http://www.assemblymag.com
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