nufacturing at the plant consisted of parts fabrication and assembly. Parts fabrication operations included metal shaping and forming which were done in batches on various machines. Unusually, Mandexor also produced some of their disk media'. This was the coated surface on which information was stored. The reason for this was partly historical, but was also justified in terms of keeping close to the technical developments in the media-coating process. Assembly operations were line-based. with the lines carefully balanced using standar