Worker empowerment is yet another aspect of LGR's quality story. And it has various aspects. Perhaps major is the ability of any one worker to shut the line down when a problem arises that can't be handled readily. At each workstation, there's a yellow cord which when pulled sets off a unique musical chime and stops the line. It is amusing to hear in Lansing - home of both the state capitol and Michigan State University - an electronic chime of "Hail to the Victors," fight song for rival University of Michigan.
Other chimed songs, which sound fairly continuously during the shift, are nursery-rhyme melodies or just pops.
