到1986年止,七年计划将把现有的老工厂改变为“无报表工厂”。伊利工厂的主要方面是柔性加工系统、计算机辅助套裁、火焰切割系统以及在作业过程中工件自动储存和补充。 GE公司正在向伊利和格罗夫城的机车制造联合企业投资3亿多美元。公司官员声称他们的目标是把那些大约在19世纪初建造的一批分散的老厂房改变为生产力更高的、“具有世界第一流水平”的工厂。 By 1986, the seven-year plan will change the existing old factory into a “non-reporting factory.” The main areas of the Erie plant are flexible processing systems, computer-aided nesting, flame cutting systems, and automatic storage and replenishment of workpieces during the job. GE is investing more than $ 300 million in locomotive manufacturing complexes in Erie and Grove City. Company officials claimed that their goal was to turn a scattered array of old factories, built around the beginning of the 19th century, into more productive “world-class” factories.