During the press briefing Dell mentioned they manufacture more than 20,000 computer systems every weekday in their Limerick facility, which is enough to fill about 70 to 100 trucks. Part of the Dell business model is that they don’t keep inventory, they don’t have any parts on stock for more than a few hours. This means that their suppliers must be able to deliver the needed parts and components to the Dell facility within two till three hours. In order to streamline all of this, and process the massive amount of inventory being delivered to the Dell facility, it is equipped with forty hangars where trucks can pull right up and unload their cargo.



Fig 2. Hangar door 27, where parts will be delivered straight to the assembly lines.



Fig 3. Parts that have just been delivered and waiting to be unpacked and processed.



Fig 4. All parts are filed here and tagged with a barcode to keep track of them.