Deborah Kent, who has been with Ford Motor Co. since 1987, has become the first Black woman to be named manager of a Ford assembly plant in the company's worldwide manufacturing system. Ms. Kent, 41, had been manufacturing manager at the Wixom, MI, plant since last February. Before that...
Production at General Motors' assembly plant in Oklahoma City was shut down for about four hours Tuesday because of a strike at a Mackie Automotive Systems plant.
GM's newest vehicle assembly plant is "shrink-wrapped" around the processIf you were building a greenfield automotive assembly plant, you might look for sites of anywhere from 200 to 300 acres in size.So imagine the constraints faced by General Motors in planning its Grand River Assembly Plant (Lansing, MI). The facility...
Ford assembly plant receives international recognition for quality program And the award goes to ... In one of its most well-known campaigns, Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, MI, would proudly boast that "Quality is Job One." The Norfolk Assembly Plant,...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 13, 1996--Intel Corporation today announced it intends to build two new factories -- an advanced logic wafer fabrication plant in Fort Worth, Texas and an assembly/test plant in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Byline: Dave Boe With the Detroit region seemingly grabbing a majority of the automotive headlines, it's good to know Chicago can make waves now and than. Ford Motor Company's Chicago Assembly Plant along Torrence Avenue on Chicago's southeast side is the...
THE POSSIBLE COMING OF A Toyota assembly plant has generated about as much press as the Second Coming. During the long Thanksgiving weekend, news came out that Toyota Motor Corp. will postpone for several months a decision on where in the United States it will build a $750 million...
The 2,300 workers at General Motors Corp. assembly plant in southeast Oklahoma City were told by company executives Monday morning their jobs would be eliminated early next year.
AsiaInfo Services 01-29-2003 New Assembly Plant for Dongfen-Honda Starts Production GUANGZHOU, Jan 29, 2003 SinoCast via COMTEX -- As the New Accord drove off the line in Guangzhou Honda, 120,000-240,000-set engine assembly plant started production successfully in Dongfen-Honda. ...
When the Chicago Assembly Plant opened its doors in 1924, Model T's were rolling off the assembly line. The plant produced 4,211 Model T's with a base price of $490. Soon, the Model T's were joined by Model A's, Model B's and, over the years, such ...
General Motors named Mike Dulaney plant manager of the Wentzville assembly plant. Dulaney will relinquish his title as plant manager of GM's Pontiac, Mich., assembly plant and take the helm in Wentzville on July 1.General Motors named Mike Dulaney plant manager of the Wentzville assembly plant. Dulaney will relinquish his...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Xerox Corporation's (NYSE: XRX) New York-based manufacturing operations have been named "Assembly Plant of the Year" by Assembly magazine, a leading industry publication for manufacturing and design engineers, managers and assembly professionals.
Zenith Electronics Corp. claims to be the only American-owned company that manufactures color TVs in the United States. In 1985 it began assembling Tvs in Mexico. During the next eight years, it moved almost all of its TV-assembly operations there. But it continued to maintain a minor assembly plant in...
Nissan Motor Co Ltd opened its refurbished Kyushu assembly plant in May 1992. The Kyushu plant, which formerly was an engine plant, will have an annual production capacity of 600,000 vehicles. The $800 million plant has replaced conveyor belts with intellNissan Motor Co Ltd opened its refurbished Kyushu assembly plant...
WIXOM, United States AFP — Hundreds of autoworkers and their families held a wake Saturday for what was once the largest car assembly plant in the world. Ford workers and their families wandered through the sprawling Wixom Assembly Plant in this Detroit suburb, listening to old Motown hits and...
BOMBARDIER officially opened its new passenger railcar assembly plant in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Dec. 1 First off the assembly line will be 34 push-pull commuter cars to be supplied to Metro-North under a $43 million contract. Initial employment is 500 people.
By Gregory Cancelada, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 30--Lear Corp. plans to lay off 237 employees at its seat-assembly plant in Hazelwood effective Dec. 23 because the Ford Motor Co. assembly plant, also in Hazelwood, will be producing fewer...
Nearly 4,500 workers at the General Motors Corp. assembly plant in Oklahoma City will be idled next week as the company cuts production because of excessive inventory.
ARKANSAS' DESIRE FOR AN auto assembly plant has certainly had its ups and downs the past couple of years. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal has once again raised hopes that maybe this time it will really happen. But there's been no confirmation from Hino Motors Ltd....
OSHAWA, Ontario, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The prestigious J.D. Power and Associates Founder's Award was presented to the General Motors Oshawa Car Assembly Plant and members of CAW Local 222 for its long-standing commitment to producing high-quality vehicles. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050527/LAF028LOGO-a) Gary Dilts, senior vice president of...
