Community,Manufacturing,Our People | October 05 2018

High-Tech, Global and Growing: How today’s manufacturing jobs are better and brighter than ever before

Wendi Gentry-Stuenkel is the Head of Supply Chain Management, FCA – North America With a 3.9% unemployment rate, an aging workforce soon to retire and a common misperception of plant jobs, our country is facing a talent crunch in the manufacturing industry. By 2030, U.S. manufacturing will experience a shortfall of 383,000 workers. From mechanics,
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Design,Ram,Technology,Uconnect | October 04 2018

Truck Thursday: ‘Top 10’ honors for the 2019 Ram 1500

WardsAuto editors made it official on October 2, 2018, when the 2019 Ram 1500 was named to the publication’s 10 Best User Experience List. WardsAuto editors put 25 vehicles through an extensive user experience. The all-new Ram 1500 emerged a ‘Top 10’ in user friendliness, infotainment features, sound systems, vehicle connectivity, driver assistance technology, information
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Manufacturing,Our People | September 10 2018

How Duct Tape and Cardboard Improved Nine-Speed Transmission Production

Scissors, duct tape and cardboard. These three resources, combined with a GoPro digital camera, helped employees at Indiana Transmission Plant I (ITPI) develop a solution to improve the efficiency of nine-speed transmission production. Before we tell you more about the “duct, paper, scissors” move, let’s explain a bit about transmission manufacturing. Gears are a major
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Community,Design,Engineering,Our People,Uncategorized | September 07 2018

FCA helps students explore, invent tomorrow’s next big thing

No one knows what the future holds, but for several weeks this summer FCA opened windows of opportunity for employees’ school-age children to dream big and think creatively about what the future could and should look like. FCA’s Camp Invention and Invention Project camp invited more than 200 elementary, middle and high school students of
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