GT Advanced Technologies Inc fka GTAT

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There were about that number of workers working 3 shifts. A build, test, disassemble and crate cycle was about 72 hours as it included a burn in cycle....dead time. They did about 5 per day to hit the 25 per week number.....Saturday OT inclusive. All packaging was available as the subassemblies came in from the suppliers in predesigned packaging designed by an internal packaging team and speced to the suppliers. There were about 20 bays that were permanent. They did not have to assemble the mezzanines each time. There were always some "hangar queens" that needed additional diagnostics to get operational so not all bays were available for the 72 hour cycle.

Do not know if the Mesa systems arrived this way. All the packaging had foam inserts to act as a visual clue so you could see if something was missing.....a hardware shortage at install was a real killer!! Packaging alone ran around $12K to $15 K per system..... could have been more..... and was part of COGS.
The packaging company rep lived at the plant.