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Brazil’s Camaçari plant is model for the future
Here is an interesting video on the plant. It is sad how poor management at GM, Ford and Chrysler has created such a bad situation for those working at those companies, their suppliers, the communities that support their production… GM and Ford had the advice they needed to succeed from Deming in the 1980’s but they chose to focus on the short term, large executive payments, accounting gimmicks instead of continual improvement…
They each have improved over the years, but the standard is not just improving but doing so effectively and enough and they failed at that. The UAW shares some responsibility for failing to successfully lead their workers to a promising future but management is much more responsible for the failure in my opinion (the video and article try to say Ford wants to be innovative in the USA but the UAW won’t let them). It is management’s jobs to focus the organization on cooperation and success for all stakeholders. When management is more concerned with getting themselves huge payoffs (from the pockets of the other stakeholders) and then try to blame one of those other stakeholders for fighting management is disingenuous. Executive’s contempt for other stakeholders leads to the other stakeholders feeling that they should be just as greedy as management.
Related: Ford’s Wrong Turn – Ford and Managing the Supplier Relationship – Global Manufacturing Data 2007 – Toyota’s New Texas Plant – Womack Podcast on GM – VW Phaeton Manufacturing plant
What a non-surprise Ford’s media site is pointy hair boss like. Their list of facilities does not include this Camacari plant. Want to browse videos or photos – you have to register first. How silly can a pointy haired boss be? Maybe Ford will blame this phb behavior on the UAW too? 1 plant in South America had actual content the rest, stuff like this:
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Hourly: Updated information pending
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May 5th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Fascinating plant of the future.
Can we take features and give them to our present plant. Probably too expensive today to build a new plant.
October 16th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
John,
Ford HAS been trying to get plants like this in the US, and it IS the UAW that blocks them. It is not only the lower paid jobs the UAW is worried about, with this new and better concept, Ford would have fewer humans on the line and more robotics, and the UAW is not going to let that happen. So not only does Detroit pay more per hour for a worker, but they also have more workers on the assembly line than what is needed, so their per hour costs is higher and they have more hours to pay. Ford can only do so much with out the UAW going on strike.