Intel introduced its "Copy Exactly" factory strategy in the mid-1980s and completed its adoption in 1996. Intel can credit "Copy Exactly" with enabling the company to bring factories online quickly with high-volume practices already in place; hence, decreasing time to market and increasing yields.
When Intel began implementing the "Copy Exactly" strategy, it saw rapid productivity and financial gains. As the strategy evolved, manufacturing became the heart of Intel's turnaround and growth in the 1990s. Productivity increased many times over. In 1997, VLSI Research estimated that revenues per manufacturing employee increased from $114,000 in 1985 to $461,000 in 1995. Meanwhile, the company's revenue increased by three times during those 10 years, while the number of factory workers decreased by 30 percent.
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