Breaking the mold

摘要

Sometimes a break with the past is critical to future success. And that is exactly what happened to several key materials handling processes that support the assembly line at CAMI Automotive's 1.64-million-square-foot assembly plant, two hours north of Detroit in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada. "We broke the mold of how we had done business for 15 years," says Larry MacAdam, a materials industrial engineer at CAMI.