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General MotorsIce cream and catsup? GM's Metal Fabricating Div. goes on a dietIce cream and catsup? GM's Metal Fabricating Div. goes on a diet
Baskin Robbins' 31 Flavors and Heinz 57 don't sound like technical manufacturing jargon, but Joseph D. Spielman, head of General Motors Corp.'s giant Metal Fabricating Div., uses them often to describe the way his operation used to be.He's referring to 31 flavors of manufacturing processes and 57 varieties of press lines. Unfortunately, they haven't blended any better on the factory floor of the GM
