Describes the evolution of a company's manufacturing

strategy over an eight-year period. Copeland had

pursued a strategy of building freestanding focused
plants devoted to single processes or product lines,
and then moving products from the home plant at
Sidney, Ohio to the new facility. Sidney is now left with
a jumble of unrelated products and processes, and
management must decide whether it should be
reorganized by product line or manufacturing
processes. HBR reprint number 85117 "Competing
Through Manufacturing," January-February 1985, by
S.C. Wheelwright and R.H. Hayes may be taught with
these cases.