Word: plante
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Once that is done, workers must plant new grass, move the goal posts and draw new lines. In total, the adjustments will cost about $50,000, Veneziano said...
...annual payroll at Mueller is $14 million, and the money is earned. Tour this plant, and you get a reminder of what hard labor is. There is no easy way to forge a 500-lb. fire hydrant out of molten railroad tracks. It's hot, loud, dirty, physical work. In an eight-hour shift that begins at 7, you get two 10-minute breaks and a 15-minute lunch...
...Your feet hurt, and you'll be home mowing the grass on Saturday, and your hands will go numb on you," he says. All of which is relative; he's happy to have the job, the benefits, the $12 an hour. "After you've worked in a poultry plant," which he did briefly, "nothing's so bad you can't handle...
Well, not entirely. While Boeing managers crowed about the production results last week, mechanics were rushing to complete 13 behind-schedule NG 737s parked outside the company's overstrained plant in Renton, Wash. Inside the cavernous building, workers struggled to avoid further delays even as Boeing was planning to speed up the NG 737 line from 14 planes a month to 21 to further clear the backlog. Says Boeing chairman Phil Condit: "We've still got some things to do." Like making money on the hot-selling 737s. Boeing has already written off $437 million after taxes against the first...
None of this has kept Boeing from going full-throttle on its factory reforms. At the 747 factory, whose 98 acres of floor and 114 ft. of height make it the world's largest building by volume, manager Bill Yoakum went sleepless near Seattle while the plant phased in software that consolidates mountains of manufacturing data. The people who need it include rows of shop-floor engineers, whom mechanics can summon for help by flicking on a light. (Yellow indicates a question, and red is "urgent.") At the same time, Boeing is switching to the Japanese practice of lean inventory...