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Digital teams win SME award for CIM success. (Digital Equipment Corp., Society of Manufacturing Engineers, computer-integrated manufacturing)
Modern Materials Handling, November, 1989
Digital teams win SME award for CIM success
Automated assembly, materials handling in ultra-clean room help Digital make high-performance disk drives.
Manufacturing high-performance, computer disk drive assemblies posed major challenges for Digital Equipment Corp. But Digital teams around the world--helped by close cooperation with major suppliers--met the challenges through computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM).
Digital pursued a CIM strategy that achieved excellent results, including:
* Greater product reliability;
* Shorter times to volume output;
* And better manufacturing space usage.
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