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As I walked down the hall toward the prize, I thought about the questions I had that could only be answered by a personal inspection of the facility. At the end of the hall was a large, gray metal door covered with safety signs and supported by a chipped floor deeply engrained with years of dirt and grime. The door opened and my mind was filled with confusion (plants like this still exist?) and elation (the factory was grouped into huge, singular departments).\nLike a patron on a tour in a dark museum, I was led through one monstrous department after another.\nI looked in amazement at queued batched loads that were so large they had to be moved by overhead crane. The cloth container holding the batch was massive. Some engineer had undoubtedly spent months convincing management to buy the crane so that twice or even three times the quantity could be moved from one department to the next.\nOnward we marched through more segregated work areas, multiple inspection stations, an oversized warehouse stocked wall-to-wall and 50-feet high with finished goods. We traveled through packaging, final inspection, and finally to the shipping dock. All told, I counted 10 separate departments inside two buildings, more than five inspection posts, and more than 12 places to house work-in-process and finished goods inventory.\nAfter the tour, I sat down to lunch with the engineering manager. Although we had talked for almost two hours that day, everything for me hinged on his opinion of lean manufacturing. 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