I have also experienced a strong reluctance from workers to move from a ‘coach-building’ set up to becoming part of an assembly line. While the sense of job satisfaction is greater, the internal logistics becomes duplicated at each work area.

In addition, the learning curve required for an Operator to build a product with 30-40 minutes of work content, from start to finish, is very steep, compared to learning a 4 minutes cycle, typical of one of our assembly-line stations.