Nothing wrong with manual assembly lines. More labor, yes. Offset largely by less expensive automation. Need well trained workers, better ones than when I was at Chrysler. But way higher production and sales. We built 55 cars an hour over two 8 hour shifts a day. Never a shutdown for lack of parts. Third shift, 9 pm to 7 am was mine, and we repaired the spot welders, and any other maintenance items. Well oiled productive operation.
Sadly it’s not just reopening a plant it’s all the other businesses that need to open in the same area and getting enough workers. You need a plant that makes seats close as they take a lot of room to ship. need stamping plants within a close proximity especially since rail transport seems over capacity. As well as many other parts that need to be delivered
Yep. The plant I worked at has its rail yard in the place Next to a major freeway. Chrysler had it’s own stamping plant. Trains dropped off parts inside the plant. Lots of such plants , now idle. The one I worked at is being shut down the end of February by Fiat, and production moved to Mexico, or so I have been told. The point is, such capacity is available. But..such efficiency and production able to keep up with sales, is not fashionable in the auto industry today. Hence, tens of thousands of sales left unfulfilled.
Great point. To take it a step further. If I manufacture widgets A,B,C,D,&E and widget E is my hottest and most sought after one. Where do you think I am going to shift my focus, especially after a full year of knowing how hot it is. I would be shifting production from widgets A,B,C and D to make more widget E's. If F150's, 250's, & 350's are not as hot as Mavericks, then gear up plants to produce more Mavericks and less of other items. The re-tooling should have been done months ago when they saw what they had. Something comparable will come along soon and it will be too late then to satisfy the customer base.
That is easier said than done, Not a Ford apologist, but I do work in supply chain
How many other models of any car that have hybrid options do customers order 35% of the time?
I saw that hate that they are doing it to you guys. I work at one of the ford plants we just in 2014 added a stamping plant.
Elon told us 2 years ago about building a truck no truck yet. Don't think to highly about Elon he is throwing 44 billion away.
Shows that management is more concerned with their established processes than in being fluid and producing what is needed by customers. Between Toyota and Ram and Hyundai, they will dominate and leave Ford eating dust. Henry must be rolling over in his grave.
I cancelled my Cybertruck order after it was obviously not going to be built this century. Bought the Maverick instead. Got it and 52 mpg for half the price.
They should have build more, and a chip plant years ago.. the chip shortage was forecast long long ago.
Half the price? Most expensive Maverick I've heard ofI cancelled my Cybertruck order after it was obviously not going to be built this century. Bought the Maverick instead. Got it and 52 mpg for half the price.
