Doomed GM plant is nation's most productive
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Doomed GM plant is nation's most productive
Doomed GM plant is nation's most productive
Rankings show GM plant slated to close takes least time of any in North America to assemble a car.
By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer[/align]May 31 2007: 12:16 PM EDT[/align]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The most productive auto plant in North America is doomed - it's on the list of plants that General Motors is closing as the world's largest automaker slashes capacity in a bid to stem losses.
The annual ranking of auto plant productivity by Harbour Consulting found GM's Oshawa No. 2 plant is the most productive in the North American auto industry.
GM narrowed the productivity gap with its Japanese rivals in 2006, according to a study released Thursday, but its most productivity plant is slated to close next year.[/align]
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[/align][/align][/align][/align]That plant is among the plants that GM (Charts, Fortune 500) plans to close in coming years as it seeks to get capacity closer in line with demand.
3 big questions for Detroit's Big Three [/align]The Ontario plant, which makes the Pontiac Grand Prix and Buick LaCrosse and Allure, took only 15.68 hours on average to build a vehicle in 2006. That's an improvement from the 16.08 hours it took in 2005, and is better than the 16.34 hours it takes to build a vehicle at the neighboring Oshawa No. 1 GM assembly line.
The No. 2 plant was originally slated to close when it's done making 2008 models about this time next year. But GM now plans to keep some production going there for an undetermined amount of time as it modernizes the Oshawa No. 1 plant to give that facility a more flexible assembly line.
Oshawa No. 2 was the second most productive plant in last year's rankings but the only plant that was more productive, an Atlanta plant that built the Ford Taurus, was closed last year when Ford (Charts, Fortune 500) discontinued production of that model. GM announced in November 2005 that it would close Oshawa 2, as well as a dozen other facilities.
A spokesman for GM was not immediate available for comment Thursday. But a year ago when the rankings showed that a plant slated for closure was its most productive, GM spokesman Dan Flores said the decision to close the Ontario assembly line was based on a number of factors, not just productivity.
"We obviously do have plants that perform well in the Harbour report being impacted," he said at that time. "We faced a very difficult fact that we have too much manufacturing capacity compared to what the market wants."
Subprime woes bite General Motors [/align]The rankings also showed that GM has the most productive engine plant in the North American industry in Spring Hill, Tenn., and the m
Rankings show GM plant slated to close takes least time of any in North America to assemble a car.
By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer[/align]May 31 2007: 12:16 PM EDT[/align]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The most productive auto plant in North America is doomed - it's on the list of plants that General Motors is closing as the world's largest automaker slashes capacity in a bid to stem losses.
The annual ranking of auto plant productivity by Harbour Consulting found GM's Oshawa No. 2 plant is the most productive in the North American auto industry.
GM narrowed the productivity gap with its Japanese rivals in 2006, according to a study released Thursday, but its most productivity plant is slated to close next year.[/align]
Video
More video[/align]CNN's Eunice Yoon reports on how Toyota is dealing with being No. 1 after passing GM in quarterly car sales (May 8)
Play video
[/align][/align][/align][/align]That plant is among the plants that GM (Charts, Fortune 500) plans to close in coming years as it seeks to get capacity closer in line with demand.
3 big questions for Detroit's Big Three [/align]The Ontario plant, which makes the Pontiac Grand Prix and Buick LaCrosse and Allure, took only 15.68 hours on average to build a vehicle in 2006. That's an improvement from the 16.08 hours it took in 2005, and is better than the 16.34 hours it takes to build a vehicle at the neighboring Oshawa No. 1 GM assembly line.
The No. 2 plant was originally slated to close when it's done making 2008 models about this time next year. But GM now plans to keep some production going there for an undetermined amount of time as it modernizes the Oshawa No. 1 plant to give that facility a more flexible assembly line.
Oshawa No. 2 was the second most productive plant in last year's rankings but the only plant that was more productive, an Atlanta plant that built the Ford Taurus, was closed last year when Ford (Charts, Fortune 500) discontinued production of that model. GM announced in November 2005 that it would close Oshawa 2, as well as a dozen other facilities.
A spokesman for GM was not immediate available for comment Thursday. But a year ago when the rankings showed that a plant slated for closure was its most productive, GM spokesman Dan Flores said the decision to close the Ontario assembly line was based on a number of factors, not just productivity.
"We obviously do have plants that perform well in the Harbour report being impacted," he said at that time. "We faced a very difficult fact that we have too much manufacturing capacity compared to what the market wants."
Subprime woes bite General Motors [/align]The rankings also showed that GM has the most productive engine plant in the North American industry in Spring Hill, Tenn., and the m
RE: Doomed GM plant is nation's most productive
too bad the writer failed to mention that the plant to to merge with oshawa 1 plant and is expected to perform just as good or even better once it reopens with the majority of the workers from oshawa 2 to remain. 
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