TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. is reconsidering its long-term, in order to plant three shifts, as it tries to build more vehicles in factories to build more self-imposed freeze.
Manufacturer of world's largest automaker will start an assembly of three-shift vehicle in North America for the first time in April at his small factory in California in Mexico to produce involved.
The move is unusual for Japanese automakers, usually in two-shift operation of the plant. If widely adopted Toyota, you can make the automaker has the most powerful system lean production. But maintenance may be required for the first time to show a few years time and the complexity of the modular platform architecture of the new global company Toyota.
"Toyota does not have much experience with three shifts, so they want to try it and see if it is suitable for Toyota or not," Chief ，Toyota's operations in Latin America and the Caribbean executive said.
"They succeeded in this three shifts," he said, experiments in Lower plant. "This could open up an opportunity to do some floors with three shifts were justified.
"This is a very difficult task, but it is a good way to get in a very short period of time the volume and cars to their customers."
Philosophy, now being challenged in a long time, compensation for other losses efficiency output gain of three shifts.
The third change, for example, eat at maintenance time, the machine is damaged greater threat. And third classes can add fixed costs. However, addition or deletion of workers in two shifts, plus overtime - to order shipped to a car, while suppressing the higher cost of flexibility.
It is in Valenciennes, France plant: In modern history, Toyota has one assembly plant running three shifts.
It runs on three shifts in fits and starts, in 2004, from 2006-2010, and then again in its June 2014 restored the three classes in 2012.
Nissan Motor Company working three shifts at its plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, and at its Sunderland, England, plant. But there is no work in factories in Japan, three-shift schedule. Honda Motor Company, no assembly plants around the clock work, but the first factory in India in three shifts temporarily to the second floor has come online in February.
As for the three shifts at the occasion, the president of Toyota, Akio Toyoda told his master production until the last vehicle of a screw existing production line. In 2013, the grandson of Toyota auto manufacturer's founder, in 2016 ordered the freezing of the new plant, hoping to maximize efficiency, to better withstand the next recession.
The investment is also equipped to keep what Toyota to build it expects its own nest eggs apparel factories around the world to meet the new modular platform for the company's products, which debuted considerable costs for next year .
The company has dozens must have its own line to improve plants and expensive revision, expected to take several years.
Apricot existing plant can help save time and save money.
"Toyota is very firm to continue to grow in a sustainable way," Angelo said. "So we take our existing plants."
This practice is not as common before the global financial crisis, but is conscious standard costs.
Before the crisis, the peak of the industry, about 10 percent of assembly plants in North America operate three shifts. Now, about half do, dear Ron Harbour, the Oliver Wyman Group, senior partner Global automotive manufacturing.
"We are at the same level of production, we are in the year 2007, approximately $ 1.6 billion, and we're doing less with 18 assembly plants than we were, because it is not the use of active thrust" Harbour said.
Many automakers have found creative work, make three possible shifts, including how to maintain the equipment while it is running, or during breaks and lunch, Harbour said.
"Toyota knows how to do," he said. "They are the best, because the production system they write the book."
Toyota said last month that the third shift at its plant south improve production capacity by 41 percent to 89,000. The change, which will increase to 300 jobs, following an annual capacity of 63,000 high production capacity increased by 11 percent this year.
This site is for weighting the Toyota plant in Mexico its first fully assembled, can cope with passenger vehicles. The company has been considering a new plant at least two years.
San Angelo, who before joining Toyota had three changes in the House of Lords City, Ohio, the GM plant, said it was the most stressful out in South America under the Toyota assembly plant. Toyota has introduced three shifts some studies, but the local labor laws do not readily allow, said.
Instead, the company has increased their work hours on Saturday to reach the exit rate to 85,000 of the two factories, with capacity of 70,000 units a year of regular time.
"Unfortunately, in labor legislation in Latin America actually forbidden in three shifts," he said. "It's not economically feasible, but I wanted to try to do three shifts there."
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