@Visfen Google "communist goals 1963". Free trade is one of them. That mistake caused WW2. Back then it was called Trading With The Enemy. Money, technology, and industry provides the means for war. Read Gorbachev's 1987 book "Perestroika". Globalization is all laid out there. He called it International Socialism. It's you who are retarded. learn some history.
This factory never stops. It works 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Produces 260k vehicles per year until 2008 when the plant grows to 500k vehicles a year.
This factory saves Ford Brazil to bankrupcy. The ford got an bad image of expensive maintenance parts, low fuel eficiency, no ethanol models and the tag of "women's car".
Now the company is running to recover the share lost for japaneses, koreans and franch automakers.
My employee's wife used to work at the chicago assembly plant driving a fork truck..she was making over $60K/yr. with incredible benefits. And we wonder why the american car makers can't compete! How are the big 3 supposed to make money building cheap, fuel efficient, lower profit margin cars in the U.S.? The auto industry in this country is over as we know it. Even if they get bailed out, they will be tiny compared to their boom days. Viva Brasil!
This plant isn't much different than the plants I've visitted here in the US. We're losing not because of robots but because of cheap imports. Unfortunately we won't be able to compete until the 3rd world countries we're shipping work to get richer and we continue to get poorer. I'm already starting to see a change in sourcing to US supplier plants because it's becoming more cost effective than shipping from China. But we still have a long way to go.
I'm an automotive engineer in Detroit and have worked for all of the Big 3. Almost everyone I know in the industry has been laid off in the past few years only to find another job (after MONTHS of unemployment) just to get laid off again. We have been feeling the crunch here for at least 6 years. It sucks.
Those cars are sold in South America. It makes sense to have a plant there. We have plenty of nice digs here in the US, too. They are full of high paid union workers. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of a union to a degree but there are folks on the line that continue to get raises while my salary has stagnated. They are now paid more than a degreed engineer with over 10 years of experience. I'm thinking we don't stand a chance until we pull the reigns real hard on the unions.
you don't need to be hard on the unions if you let the plant go to the wall. That sorts out the unions once and for all. We had this in Britain with British Leyland, limping along for years with crap management and even worse unions, all at the taxpayers expense, in the end when forced to compete in the real world they collapsed. They just couldn't do it, they improved but could never get to the level of the Japanese plants in this country.
Globalization is communism.
indiasucksalways 1 year ago
@indiasucksalways What a retarded statement. No, communism is communal, local, while free trade is free, global.
Visfen 1 year ago
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@Visfen Google "communist goals 1963". Free trade is one of them. That mistake caused WW2. Back then it was called Trading With The Enemy. Money, technology, and industry provides the means for war. Read Gorbachev's 1987 book "Perestroika". Globalization is all laid out there. He called it International Socialism. It's you who are retarded. learn some history.
indiasucksalways 1 year ago
People blame the UAW for the AutoIndustry lusterluck but mgmt also has a lot to do with it. Executives don't give a shit about employees anymore
rmanrod 2 years ago
This factory never stops. It works 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Produces 260k vehicles per year until 2008 when the plant grows to 500k vehicles a year.
This factory saves Ford Brazil to bankrupcy. The ford got an bad image of expensive maintenance parts, low fuel eficiency, no ethanol models and the tag of "women's car".
Now the company is running to recover the share lost for japaneses, koreans and franch automakers.
rpolga 2 years ago
So how many cars does the factory make in a month?
lostinseganet 2 years ago
i cant wait for general motors to file bankruptcy. when they do goodbye union. and goog ridence to the UAW.
51472 3 years ago
this is just a copy of japanese style manufacturing from the 80s
the industrial robots that you see are made in japan
emforty2 3 years ago
ANY GUYS UP?
im on cam and bored z1
031417464 3 years ago
My employee's wife used to work at the chicago assembly plant driving a fork truck..she was making over $60K/yr. with incredible benefits. And we wonder why the american car makers can't compete! How are the big 3 supposed to make money building cheap, fuel efficient, lower profit margin cars in the U.S.? The auto industry in this country is over as we know it. Even if they get bailed out, they will be tiny compared to their boom days. Viva Brasil!
scout233 3 years ago
move to the south and screw the union like imports are doing now for example toyota haven't you noticed that all their plants are in the south ?
luchoflaco 3 years ago
Soon China will sell cars for 5,ooo $ in America
then what?
dave777blaster 3 years ago
This plant isn't much different than the plants I've visitted here in the US. We're losing not because of robots but because of cheap imports. Unfortunately we won't be able to compete until the 3rd world countries we're shipping work to get richer and we continue to get poorer. I'm already starting to see a change in sourcing to US supplier plants because it's becoming more cost effective than shipping from China. But we still have a long way to go.
VenisonFajitas 3 years ago
too bad lean production is a thing of the past
ayoitsbow 3 years ago
Whether bailout or not the people working in US autos can expect to see 4/5ths of the workforce fired this is the Future for Detroit Auto.
the products will still be cheap and crude as now but will cost a lot less to make than those in America.
the reason is America is over as you know it
the people have no money for cars and wont ever have any to buy them again,unless prices are reduced by 2/3rds
and the worse thing is that Americans do not even know it yet.but they will soon.
dave777blaster 3 years ago
I'm an automotive engineer in Detroit and have worked for all of the Big 3. Almost everyone I know in the industry has been laid off in the past few years only to find another job (after MONTHS of unemployment) just to get laid off again. We have been feeling the crunch here for at least 6 years. It sucks.
VenisonFajitas 3 years ago
Nice digs they got there in Brazil
thanks for the video :)
5 stars
ShareWaveOrg 3 years ago
Those cars are sold in South America. It makes sense to have a plant there. We have plenty of nice digs here in the US, too. They are full of high paid union workers. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of a union to a degree but there are folks on the line that continue to get raises while my salary has stagnated. They are now paid more than a degreed engineer with over 10 years of experience. I'm thinking we don't stand a chance until we pull the reigns real hard on the unions.
VenisonFajitas 3 years ago 2
you don't need to be hard on the unions if you let the plant go to the wall. That sorts out the unions once and for all. We had this in Britain with British Leyland, limping along for years with crap management and even worse unions, all at the taxpayers expense, in the end when forced to compete in the real world they collapsed. They just couldn't do it, they improved but could never get to the level of the Japanese plants in this country.
You don't need laws just a free market.
ianclivewright 3 years ago