Mr. Gilmartin, 28, is a manufacturing consultant at Dell, the computer maker, in Austin, Tex.

Her father is a manufacturing consultant to the shoe industry, in Westport.

The bridegroom's father, who is retired, was a manufacturing consultant in Miami.

Her father is a manufacturing consultant in Wayne to apparel companies.

The couple work for Andersen Consulting in Denver, the bride as a manager of market research for financial services and the bridegroom as a manufacturing consultant.

In May 1983, Jim Kimsey became a manufacturing consultant for Control Video, which was near bankruptcy.

Later that year, the company nearly went bankrupt and one of its investors, Frank Caufield, had his friend Jim Kimsey brought in as a manufacturing consultant.

Dwight Anderson, a commodities specialist and an alumnus of Princeton's history department (where this reviewer teaches), started as a manufacturing consultant, visiting factories.

"Ford's product renewal cycle is 10 years or more, while the Japanese are doing it in 4," said James Harbour, a manufacturing consultant to the automotive industry.

James Harbour, a manufacturing consultant, said, "Saturn's manufacturing processes should have been proven before the plant went into production."