Monuments don't stand at the Scottsburg plants if there is any way that they can be moved for the sake of improving the process. That's how it works in good, lean facilities. These are all readily achievable with lean. Although there is more to lean than manufacturing cells, they are an important element. Included in the book are a number of notable pieces that provide an up-close look at lean from some of the people who are intimately involved in bringing their organizations to this healthy, agile condition.
Some people think in terms of redeployment just within a particular plant.
It was deemed unacceptable. One solution would be to take the two presses flanking the middle one, then moving them so that they were parallel to each other and perpendicular to the one in the middle. That would result in a squared U-shape. Simple, but not optimal. All of which is good.