Ford's new world class plant in Brasil

Is this where the manufacturing technology is headed?

http://apps.detnews.com/apps/multime...ex.php?id=1189

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.

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

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

"hls" > wrote in message
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> 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

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.

"C. E. White" > wrote in message
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>
> "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)