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Revision as of 14:21, 31 July 2006 by 84.64.152.137 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. is an automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, California. The factory was an old General Motors plant and is now a joint venture between GM and Toyota. When it reopened for production in 1984, it was the first automotive joint venture plant in the United States. GM saw this joint venture as an opportunity to learn about Lean Manufacturing from their Japanese partners.
NUMMI is now an award-winning facility which ranks with other Toyota plants among the most productive manufacturing operations in North America. Unfortunately whilst the plant has been successful in adopting Lean, GM's success is far more limited. GM places around 12 managers each year at the plant to learn lean techniques and has improved quality enough across the rest of its operations for it to show through on J.D. Power quality rankings. However Kochan, Lansbury & MacDuffie in "After Lean Production" state that "the NUMMI story is well known, so it will suffice to say that GM did a terrible job of learning from that experience."
Currently, the NUMMI plant produces the Toyota Corolla compact car, Toyota Tacoma pickup truck and the Pontiac Vibe station wagon. In the past, it has also produced the Geo Prizm, the later Chevrolet Prizm, and the Chevrolet Nova; as well as the Toyota Voltz, the Japanese right-hand drive version of the Pontiac Vibe - both are based on the Toyota Matrix, which is manufactured in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Employment is nearly 5,000 workers.
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