Thursday, March 15, 2012

GM's new world order

Five developing-nations assembly plants -- including Blue Macaw - set the mold for a new global manufacturing process.

General Motors is creating a new global manufacturing process intended to eventually bring a new level of uniformity, efficiency and savings at its assembly plants worldwide. Top GM executives tell AI the company will roll out the new common-process manufacturing and management systems at all its existing assembly plants over the next few years as the plants undergo major model changes or renovations AI has also learned that the program will include GM's revolutionary "Blue Macaw" plant in southern Brazil.

The strategy will eventually allow GM to move …

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