John Biuso says he will occasionally show employees video clips of a Kodak manufacturing plant in Rochester, N.Y., being demolished. As a former Kodak employee, Biuso points out that he knows firsthand what can happen to a plant if it doesn't evolve. Today, Biuso is the process improvement manager at the IEC Electronics Corp. circuit-board assembly plant in Newark, N.Y. Like the nearby Kodak plant in Biuso's video, IEC's Newark operation was once in danger of imploding, too. The Rochester-area plant struggled to remain viable as low-cost countries took over production of the motherboards IEC once produced for personal computers.
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