Comments on: Ford’s Camaçari Plant in Brazil http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/11/18/fords-camacari-plant-in-brazil/ Management Improvement focused on Deming, lean thinking, innovation, customer focus, six sigma, etc. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/11/18/fords-camacari-plant-in-brazil/comment-page-1/#comment-42503 James Mon, 09 May 2011 19:22:43 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/?p=1142#comment-42503 Unions are a problem - for sure - but the real reason manufacturing left the US is because the US Government made it so by signing the GAT and NAFTA treaties. This manufacturing epidemic is happenning by design, on purpose, perpetrated by our world leaders. Wake up people! As an experience automation engineer i can assure you that it takes way more people and jobs to build and run one these factories than evening news is telling you about... on purpose! Wake up! Unions are a problem – for sure – but the real reason manufacturing left the US is because the US Government made it so by signing the GAT and NAFTA treaties. This manufacturing epidemic is happenning by design, on purpose, perpetrated by our world leaders. Wake up people! As an experience automation engineer i can assure you that it takes way more people and jobs to build and run one these factories than evening news is telling you about… on purpose! Wake up!

]]> By: Will http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/11/18/fords-camacari-plant-in-brazil/comment-page-1/#comment-34308 Will Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:21:21 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/?p=1142#comment-34308 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. 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.

]]> By: Tom Boyle http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/11/18/fords-camacari-plant-in-brazil/comment-page-1/#comment-33709 Tom Boyle Tue, 05 May 2009 20:05:24 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/?p=1142#comment-33709 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. 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.

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