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Not often we get the chance to look inside the kitchen of a successful computer manufacturer such as Dell or EMC. Usually they keep the details of their manufacturing process under wraps and don’t really let journalists in to take a peek, let alone take photos. So we welcomed their invitation to visit their European manufacturing facilities in Limerick and Cork, Ireland, last week, to see for ourselves how Dell and EMC get the job done. The Dell facility is located in Limerick and with its 3,500 employees caters to the European and African markets and is one of the five manufacturing plants Dell has around the globe. They manufacture over 20,000 PCs every day and ship these to countries in the Europe, Middle-East and Africa region.
During the press briefing Dell mentioned they manufacture more than 20,000 computer systems every weekday in their Limerick facility, which is enough to fill about 70 to 100 trucks. Part of the Dell business model is that they don’t keep inventory, they don’t have any parts on stock for more than a few hours. This means that their suppliers must be able to deliver the needed parts and components to the Dell facility within two till three hours. In order to streamline all of this, and process the massive amount of inventory being delivered to the Dell facility, it is equipped with forty hangars where trucks can pull right up and unload their cargo.
