Posted on 03/08/2013 8:00:48 AM PST by tje
Chrysler is reportedly having a hard time ramping up production of its 2013 Ram 1500. According to The Detroit News, only 16 of the 58 trucks built at the Warren Truck Assembly Plant during the model's first hour passed final inspection. While quality eventually improved over the course of the day, just over half of the units built on Thursday were approved for shipment. Even with workers ordered to stay late to fix their mistakes, some 1,078 units remained outside the facility with defects. The problem, according to workers at the plant, is morale.
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Doesn’t sound like you are a Deming fan ~ his secret to quality control was to teach and guide ordinary people to perform superlative work.
I know people who handle “plant vehicle quality” (daily battle to keep up quality)...I’m not sure this is unusual for a new model launch. It’s really an assumption about morale. New equipment configurations often experience “issues” that must be dealt with by the workers...they often do everything they can to get things straight.
That said, if it is a morale issue it’s hard to sympathize with them. Good pay for what they’re doing along with the state of the job market you’d think they’d be happy.
Chrysler translated - Chrap.
I love my Toyota Tacoma. Solid as a rock and reliable as the day is long!
Made in Texas by non-union workers.
Is this the factory where the workers get drunk and stoned on their lunch break, and the union kept them from getting fired?
Unreliable Awful Workers
Really is a bummer when you can work 40 hours a week and still have three full days off. Oh, the unfairness of it all.
Back in the late 90s we almost had them sold on Allisons to go with the Cummins 6BT, and built prototypes, but the German invasion nixed the plan.
Now the Italians are running the show and they’ve put in a German ZF, lol.
A buyer I knew at Chrysler told me the Germans had a unique vision for the Jeep brand.
They wanted to turn it into a travel brand, with Jeep clothing, Jeep resorts, Jeep jewelry, etc. Somewhere along the line, this idea was ditched.
AS a life long member of he IBEW (Coal-fired Plant Unit Operaror) I would disagree vehemently. ive seen the work done by unskilled scab labor. yes, it got done and the managers stand around and slap each other on the back for the money saved. When they go home its the skilled that take over and correct the mistakes and make it work right. just my everyday experience for 30 yrs. ( of course it now cost them time-half or double , but that comes from a different column on the books and doesnt effect the project costs,) Its completed under budget and they're a successful manager, I would never defend public employee unions striking to get more largess from the taxpayer, it shouldbe unlawfull on public safety grounds.
In fact the Gov. of any state would be smart to simply state these facts and follow through. Collectice bargaining is a 1st ammendment right to assemble and speak. a strike or work stoppage is a public safety issue. when they look across the table and ask for more and more, the answer is no, with no ability to strike the taxpayer wins.
There is an enormous difference in trade labor unions and public employee unions. Defined skills for one. Apprenticeship programs and how they are managed and tested proved this wonderful country with the finest craftsmanship available.Car companies problems are far more about the enviroment they live. and standards ignored or forgotten.
As a FORMER IBEW Member (less than 1 year by MY OWN CHOICE), I can EASILY point out the FACT that Union labor is a collection of mis-fits, long-term slackers, over-paid, under-achieving, not-fit-for-PERSONAL ACHIEVMENT AND ADVANCEMENT ON MERTI, but willing to slap EACH other on the back as they cite "Union Rules" for not doing menial tasks, because it would put a Union Brother out of a job. Davis-Bacon, for example, eliminates competition, and ASSURES payback to Union donors with PUBLIC MONEY being FORCED TO BE PAID TO UNION LABOR, simply to accomodate their HIGH COSTS, and, the projects cost 30% OR MORE additionally than to what could be done EQUALLY WELL, and in MOST CASES BETTER, than the FORCED Union work.
Now; if you're accurate, why not support RIGHT-TO-WORK, or, are you a "Seniority" person, who thinks that once you've spent enought "time in grade", that you can sit on your ass and earn because "I paid my dues"????
Please spare me the canned Union rhetoric about "Appreticeships" and "Skills Training". I've seen what skills Union Members have shown, and other than donating to 6-figure Bosses' salaries and benefits, and donating 100% to Democrats so they keep the circular Tax Dollars going through that meatgrinder, Unions have LONG outlived their usefullness.
I, like most common sense Americans, look for the Union Label, and then buy other.
In my business, if you're Union, I don't need your contract if you can't compete with Non-Union bids....period.
“Just love my 2003 Ram 2500 Cummings Diesel” Same here, mine is a 1996 Ram 2500 Cummings Diesel, 12 valve; only 217,000 miles on it. 500,000 miles on it or until death do us part!
Big wheels turn slowly. Perhaps ours will turn enough that Deming will become popular here again.
I hope to live long enough to see that happen and then die being happy for and proud of my country.
Henry Ford
Want to cite a link to that quote?
Cummins at least made it look pretty on the outside, and Harvester didn't ~ but heavy manufacturing installations are hot, oily, dirty, and dangerous. They are noisy.
If i had a choice between 12 weeks of Advanced Infantry Training or 12 weeks on a rods and caps line, the AIT would win!
Sure. Try http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Ford. I didn't get the wording exactly right, but he said it plainly enough.
See if this works. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Ford
Reap what you so, folks.
Why do you imagine union members always vote Democrat ~ that’s bizarre. i grew up in a neighborhood of union members and no one there ever voted for a Democrat for anything!
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