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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 229.1 | more rumor? | REGENT::GETTYS | Bob Gettys N1BRM | Fri Dec 05 1986 08:26 | 11 |
| Nothing official, but I have heard that once the
group(s) that are in it now vacate (soon?); the building will be
maintained empty until some MANUFACTURING group (preferably part
of the section of DEC which "owns" the site (which section is
it?) need the space. I got the impression that somebody doesn't
want to give part of their "empire" (very loosely used), and
that the spece didn't seem to be reasonably convertable to
office space. (The building going on in the Lancaster area is
supposed to be office type space.)
/s/ Bob
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| 229.2 | Another Rumor | WME::MACOMBER | | Fri Dec 05 1986 17:02 | 7 |
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I think the Franklin Facility is owned by CSM (Computer Systems
Manufacturing). I heard a rumor that the STRIDE group was going
to implement a "factory of the future" project there.
- Ted
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| 229.3 | | VLNVAX::MDLYONS | Michael D. Lyons DTN 297-5911 | Mon Dec 08 1986 16:39 | 1 |
| Franklin = 86xx Manufacturing
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| 229.4 | Just a suposition | HUMAN::CONKLIN | Peter Conklin | Thu Dec 11 1986 23:02 | 8 |
| It's unlikely that CSM, or any part of manufacturing, will need
the building. The floor space per megabuck of product is dropping
faster than the company is growing, thanks to new technologies,
the elimination of FA&T, Just-In-Time inventory, etc.
As a result, it would seem reasonable that the site be converted
to a facility for engineering or marketing. However, it is fairly
far south on 495, so who wants to move that far from Maynard?
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| 229.5 | Franklin better then Maynard for me! | HIGHFI::MICKOL | Videographer | Fri Dec 12 1986 12:38 | 4 |
| I think you'll find a good number of Digital employees who live south of
the Mass Pike. Franklin wouldn't be a bad drive for many of them....
Jim (Uptonite)
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| 229.6 | SBO group moving to Franklin | ANT::MORRISON | Bob M. LMO2/P41 296-5357 | Thu Nov 17 1988 13:56 | 7 |
| A year or two I wrote a note in here, which I can't find now, asking what
was going to happen to the Franklin plant. The answer is that the group I
work for, Semiconductor Business Org. (SBO), is moving there next summer.
This is an engrg/mfg group, but not mfg in the sense of producing a product.
Major remodeling will be needed before we can move. The Franklin plant is
about half empty now.
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| 229.7 | Educate me | WMOIS::D_MONTGOMERY | Down at Dino's Bar & Grill | Fri Nov 18 1988 08:05 | 8 |
| :: This is an engrg/mfg group, but not mfg in the sense of producing a
:: product.
Explain, please, how manufacturing can be anything other than
producing a product.
-Don-
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| 229.8 | | BUSY::KLEINBERGER | Most of an angel is in the inside | Fri Nov 18 1988 09:03 | 7 |
| We receive chips... test them, at times blast a pattern on them,
and then ship them out to internal DEC customers.
In the last Plant Managers Monthly report, the move date was said
to be 1 July 1989.
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| 229.9 | MLO to FXO???? | NPOGRP::BRAKE | In Search of the Lost Chord | Mon Nov 21 1988 08:26 | 15 |
| Now this makes no sense at all. Here we have a plant, FXO, that
is the prototype mfg site in that it has close access to I495, an
attatched warehouse, many docks for shipping and receiving and a
mafg floor perfectly designed for low volume work.
Then we have LVM mfg in the Mill which has to be the absolute worst
site for mfg in DEC today. Limited floor capacities, poor cube
utilization, and multi floors.
If a transfer from MLO to FXO were to happen it would be just inside
the 40 mile relocation limit thus saving costs and it would not
entail a major costly refit of the FXO building.
Rich
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| 229.10 | | SPMFG1::CHARBONND | I'm the NRA | Fri Jan 13 1989 09:05 | 3 |
| My facility, SPO, is using space in FXO for storage - sending
trucks back and forth every day to replenish our on-hand
material. Don't know how long it will last.....
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| 229.11 | What are they doing down there, anyway? | BEES::SCHLIESMANN | Barry | Thu Mar 30 1989 13:06 | 4 |
| Does anyone know what groups are in FXO (or are planning to be in the next
6 mos)? Is it all manufacturing, or are engineering groups going there
too? I heard that a few groups from MRO where planned to relocate, but
don't know any details.
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| 229.12 | | ISWS::OGRADY | George - ISWS - 262-8665/296-4023 | Thu Mar 30 1989 17:38 | 7 |
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The group in LMO (semi-conductor I think) is heading for Franklin.
The Middlesex News had a article last week about it. The company
plans upto 400 employees according to the article.
gog
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| 229.13 | | ANT::JLUDGATE | Wigan | Sun Apr 23 1989 23:31 | 10 |
| last that i have heard (being one of the people affected)
official move date for current SBO residents at LMO2 and LMO4 is
December 1989.
an architect has been contracted to plan the internal remodelling,
i have not heard anything about actual work started inside it yet.
jonathan
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