| Title: | The Digital way of working |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL ON |
| Created: | Fri Feb 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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About 4 months ago I heard that the Enfield, CT plant is closing and the operation there is moving to Springfield. Initially I heard that this oper- ation would remain organizationally separate from the Springfield manufacturing operation. Since then I haven't heard much. I have some questions: 1. When is the Enfield facility going to close? Or is it going to remain a DEC plant after the mfg operation moves out? 2. Is the Enfield operation still moving to Springfield? If not, is it going to be phased out completely or moved piecemeal to other sites? 3. When Enfield opened a few years ago, it was called the "factory of the future". Can a "factory of the future" operate in an old converted factory such as Springfield? I'm asking this out of curiosity. There is something about this that doesn't quite add up.
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| 1482.1 | COOKIE::LENNARD | Rush Limbaugh, I Luv Ya Guy | Thu May 30 1991 15:44 | 3 | |
So what else is new? I haven't seen anything in the last six months
that "adds up". The new name of the game is short-term profit at any
cost....and believe me there's gonna be a terrible cost.
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| 1482.2 | "Future" now past | ELWOOD::KAPLAN | Larry Kaplan, DTN: 237-6872 | Thu May 30 1991 15:47 | 16 |
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> 1. When is the Enfield facility going to close? Or is it going to remain a DEC
> plant after the mfg operation moves out?
>
Last I heard, ENO is closing at the end of June.
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>2. Is the Enfield operation still moving to Springfield? If not, is it going
>to be phased out completely or moved piecemeal to other sites?
>
No - it is not moving, although that was the original plan. It is
closing. Other plants will pick up the work they were doing. The
stuff they were doing for us is moving to Singapore.
L.
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| 1482.3 | ENO--more info | GENRAL::CRANE | Barbara Crane --- dtn 522-2299 | Fri May 31 1991 15:11 | 12 |
Some of the key technology work which Enfield was doing WILL
continue, in Shrewsbury, I believe.
As I understand it, the "factory of the future" had to do with
workstyles, teams, etc., not with the physical facility per se.
Charlie Christ (PCSP VP) was just here in Colorado yesterday
and made it clear that the work styles, etc., had nothing to do
with the closing. We just have TOO MUCH module capacity, and this
was a plant where the work could be readily re-distributed.
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