Category Archives: Manufacturing

Manufacturing | December 02 2015

Sales impact

When you buy one of our cars, trucks, minivans, SUVs or crossovers, you’re also buying a relationship … between you and your vehicle (and your dealer).  It’s a long-term relationship where, if you take care of “her” with routine maintenance, she’ll take care of you. With FCA US November sales up 3% compared to November
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Manufacturing | July 17 2015

What does quality really mean?

Is quality about minimizing what’s wrong? Is it about being “perfect”? Is it a feeling? There are many research firms and industry consultants that release automotive quality reports, surveys and studies. But to judge those results as you would, you have to dig into what they are truly measuring. For San Diego-based Strategic Vision’s Total
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Manufacturing | March 03 2015

Windsor Assembly ensures minivans will be plentiful

Minivan lovers, fear not. While our Windsor Assembly Plant is down for 14 weeks to implement improvements and reconfigure the assembly process to start production of the next generation minivan, people might wonder if there’ll be enough minivans to buy? The clear answer is yes. “Through the planning we did and the extra work put
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Manufacturing | February 18 2015

Building a better minivan

30,000 ways to improve manufacturing and assembly. When your employees are involved and you have a chance to step back to look at the entire manufacturing and assembly process, the result can be pretty good. Employees at the Windsor, Ont., Assembly Plant, home to our minivans and cargo vans, had the opportunity to take a
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Manufacturing | October 07 2014

WCM: The art in manufacturing

At Chrysler Group, we build things. Things that move people. But not just in the literal sense. The vehicles we manufacture often stir emotions in their owners. In a similar way, Chrysler Group’s manufacturing employees don’t only build cars; they possess hidden gems that make them unique. World Class Manufacturing, or WCM as it is
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