July 2009 ISSUE

Volume 43 | Number 7

Stamping Presses

Right-Sized Tooling for a Down-Sized Economy

George Keremedjiev | July 1, 2009

Office-furniture manufacturer Kimball Office models plant-layout modifications after the Japanese-developed Chaku-Chaku process--single-piece manufacturing in which a worker takes a part from one workstation to the next and sets up and operates each machine from beginning to end.

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