This article focuses on Tribon Bearing Co. plant in Brook Park, OH, a manufacturer of discrete carbon composite parts and shapes that had been plagued by problems that threatened its existence. The old Tribon plant was a traditional manufacturing setup, in which operations were highly compartmentalized. Equipment was arranged according to purpose and job functions were narrowly defined. The plant’s production control manager, there was plenty of distrust and bad feelings between front-line management and the plant floor workforce. Workcell leaders work with manufacturing engineers to develop a process for a new product or to improve on an established process. Each manufacturing engineer is assigned two or three product lines. If a cell leader determines that a process change saves time or money, she/he will make it a permanent change. The manufacturing engineer makes the quality department aware of what the workcell is doing, and the quality department signs off the change.