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Ford's new world class plant in Brasil
Is this where the manufacturing technology is headed?
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Ford's new world class plant in Brasil
On Jan 7, 9:20*am, "hls" > wrote:
> Is this where the manufacturing technology is headed? > > http://apps.detnews.com/apps/multime...ex.php?id=1189 Yep, at least in August of 2007. |
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Ford's new world class plant in Brasil
hls > wrote:
>Is this where the manufacturing technology is headed? > >http://apps.detnews.com/apps/multime...ex.php?id=1189 This is what the Japanese promised in the 1980s. A line with different products on it, and robotic systems that can perform different operations on different products, rather than just able to perform a single operation at each position. A facility like this doesn't need a lot of unskilled labour, but it needs a small number of highly-trained people who can maintain the manufacturing systems. So it wouldn't seem that rural Brazil would be a good fit, but the honest truth is that this is one of the biggest markets and it's a growing one. Putting manufacturing close to the material supply and the customer base is the quickest route to reducing overhead. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Ford's new world class plant in Brasil
"hls" > wrote in message ... > Is this where the manufacturing technology is headed? > http://apps.detnews.com/apps/multime...ex.php?id=1189 That is an old article.....it is over 3 years old. I beleive Ford will now claim it's most modern plant is in Michigan. See: http://media.ford.com/article_displa...ticle_id=33715 Ed |
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Ford's new world class plant in Brasil
On Jan 7, 11:18*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> hls > wrote: > >Is this where the manufacturing technology is headed? > > >http://apps.detnews.com/apps/multime...ex.php?id=1189 > > This is what the Japanese promised in the 1980s. *A line with different > products on it, and robotic systems that can perform different operations > on different products, rather than just able to perform a single operation > at each position. > > A facility like this doesn't need a lot of unskilled labour, but it needs > a small number of highly-trained people who can maintain the manufacturing > systems. *So it wouldn't seem that rural Brazil would be a good fit, "rural" hardly applies. Seems Camacari is over 200,000 and it's just outside Salvador with a metro population in excess of 3 million. |
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Ford's new world class plant in Brasil
"C. E. White" > wrote in message ... > > "hls" > wrote in message > ... >> Is this where the manufacturing technology is headed? >> http://apps.detnews.com/apps/multime...ex.php?id=1189 > > That is an old article.....it is over 3 years old. > I beleive Ford will now claim it's most modern plant is in Michigan. See: > > http://media.ford.com/article_displa...ticle_id=33715 > > Ed Possibly. It is good to know that foreign manufacturing facilities like this one have been and are being implemented. I used to live in Salvador, not far from Cama(s)ari. It is not, as mentioned before, exactly "rural". But I'll leave it at that ;>) It takes a while, IMO, to get plants like this really operating efficiently. JIT deliveries seem to have been attacked in a slightly different way here, but that could also be an extremely weak point. (My machine doesnt form cedilhas very easily) |
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