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To: stock bull who wrote (52139)	7/18/1998 2:51:00 PM
From: Dr. D	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 176387

Stockbull You wrote: Donald, could you give us your impressions of the tour? Ok here goes... First of all, this facility is unbelievably huge and completely air conditioned. The first thing you notice is the vendor trucks backed up to the assembly floor. The parts in the tractor trailers and managed buy on-sight vendor employees. Then keep the parts stocked into the hardware racks. (They never run out of anything.) All assembly workers are wearing grounding straps and work on anti-stat mats and workstations. No chances of static discharge are tolerated. The appearance of the facility was immaculate. This is a State of the Are assembly plant. The assemble starts with instillation of the CPU on a Dell Patented Intel compatible motherboard. This takes about 5 seconds. The next line worker grabs the motherboard and Installs it into the Dell Patented Case. The case has clips that snap into the motherboard. One screw holds it all together. Note: There are no plastic standoffs used on these boards. Installation of the motherboard takes mere seconds. The power supply pivots out allowing access to the motherboard. No screws to remove. It snaps back into place in an instant. A barcode id sticker is placed on the case, This barcode sticker contains the completed custom system including hardware and software and configuration requirements. The assemble is placed on a tray and is moved down the line. As the tray moved down the line the barcode sticker is read electronically and produced a led readout of part needed to complete the customers custom order. Such as hard drive, video, Floppy drive, cdrom cables, screws etc. The tray then moves to final assembly area. A two person team works is a small pod installing the hardware into the case. Note all screws used to fasten hardware are installed with pneumatic driven pre-set torque wrenches. This step typically took about 3 minutes working as a well trained team. The case cover in installed and moved to next station. The operator at this station connects power and cables to do hardware for diagnostic hardware testing. I am not sure how long the process last, but it not very long at all. The operator stated Dell has State of the art Diagnostics in this station. The machine is then loaded into a cart rack of about 5 or 6 computers. They are then moved to the software and burins area. I think the operator said the systems are tested for 1 « hours but I'm not certain about this timetable After this process the machines are carefully inspected for cosmetic flaws. We saw system rejected for a scratch ¬ of an inch long on the side of the case. It goes to the factory outlet store after the installed software is removed. Then, the machines are carefully packed boxed and shipping labels affixed, Placed in waiting truck for shipment. I asked our tour guide (Warren) how many machines are typically shipped from the facility daily. He stated it was somewhere between 13k and 15 k systems per day. They are working two shifts 6 days a week working overtime every day. I hope this address most of you question? Best regards. Donald ...DELL, Capitalism at it finest...