www.airfloat.com 1 Locomotive Assembly Transporters The Situation The largest North American manufacturer of diesel locomotives wanted to reduce assembly times and decrease costly work-in-process (WIP) inventories at its Erie, Penn., facility. The company had been using overhead cranes to move the locomotives from workstation to workstation. This inevitably led to costly idle time spent waiting for slow-moving cranes. Workers were

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