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Some of the results, however, were ambiguous. Standout example: the Michigan caucuses, Saturday's main event. The state was stacked in Mondale's favor; he had the backing of the United Auto Workers and almost every Michigan Democratic politician with a recognizable name. Some caucuses were held in unpublicized locations, others in union halls under the eyes of U.A.W. officials...
...they did, pointing the way to a revolution in manufacturing. The companies began a $70 billion capital spending program to build better cars and trucks. Detroit equipped itself with elaborate computerized devices to perform hundreds of tasks like precision welding and alignment of doors and fenders. Auto executives consulted with the gurus of manufacturing and quality: W. Edwards Deming, J.M. Juran and Philip B. Crosby, a Florida-based consultant whose 1979 book, Quality Is Free, sits on many Detroit desks...
Armed with their advice, the auto industry set out to drive responsibility down through the ranks, allowing employees to have more say in what they are doing. In Japan, manufacturing defects are caught by workers, who are encouraged to stop the line and correct them. The idea is to make a car ready to ship and sell by the time it rolls out of the plant and to make every worker an inspector...
...ardent supporter of that concept is Douglas Fraser, former head of the United Auto Workers, who has long contended that U.S. workers are the best in the world. They will deliver peerless quality, he believes, but only if management asks it of them. Honda's experience with U.S. workers in its American plants bears that out. Workers at Honda's plants in Marysville, Ohio, do work that is as good as or better than that at the company's plants in Japan, say Honda executives. Car buyers, especially those on the West Coast, have...
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