For now the 31-year-old plant manager is content to lord over a factory floor of Vermeer Manufacturing Co. in Pella, Iowa, pointing to a directional drill assembly line that used to be cluttered with 20 days' worth of parts inventory.
Every change on the factory floor that allows workers to adapt to sudden shifts in demand reduces the excess capacity of people and plant space Dell must maintain to get products out on time.
When applying for licenses and approvals, Cadbury assigned the second floor the registration number of an adjoining plot so it would appear that the expansion was a separate plant eligible for the tax exemption, the former executive said.