In Italy, 22, 000 workers spread across five assembly plants make about 650, 000 cars a year.
Politicians are obsessed with assembly plants, which some see as a symbol of national virility.
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That is about 10 new assembly plants the others would need to build to replace the lost GM vehicles.
If Oaxaca is part of Mexico's deep south, Tijuana, home to many maquiladora assembly plants, is in its dynamic north.
Television assembly plants in Poland, Malaysia, Mexico and some office buildings in Tokyo may also be thrown into the sale bonanza.
But they are conditioned to wait a month or two, and suppliers in those countries are typically situated near the assembly plants.
Detroit's car assembly plants are running at just 77% of capacity, a number that is propped up by those rebates and 0% loans.
The 105-acre area, which includes two car assembly plants, a paint shop and offices, accounts for about a quarter of the old site.
The company has been able to resume production at all of its Japanese assembly plants, although these are also affected by the parts shortages.
Specifically, it copies advanced manufacturing systems such as those used in automobile assembly plants, which effects just-in-time finding and retrieving of components this way.
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Shih's Acer has several large computer assembly plants in China, as do many of its component suppliers, most of whom manufacture in Dongguan, Guangdong province.
As always, debate ensued around the state of affairs in Africa, and we touched on politics, education, health, AID, trade, AIDS, assembly plants, and tourism.
It also requires no grease, a huge nuisance in assembly plants.
Although Chrysler's manufacturing capacity will be reduced by 15%, analysts had expected even more closures, and noted the absence of any American assembly plants on the list.
The planned factory is just one of 14 Chrysler assembly plants in North America, so the results of the experiment--good or bad--aren't likely to significantly affect company profits.
"If you went back 10 years ago when we had close to 20 assembly plants, a lot of them were running on one or two shifts, " he said.
When he arrived in Tokyo in 1999 to revive the fortunes of Nissan, he took plenty of flak after slashing more than 20, 000 jobs and closing assembly plants.
The ferocious seasonal rains that hit the country in October 2011 caused massive flooding which disrupted the production of hard disk drives, cameras, microchips and automotive parts and assembly plants.
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The new Chrysler is outfitting all of its assembly plants with "metrology centers, " clean zones within the factory that employ about 30 people who scan and measure components and complete vehicle bodies.
Although it may seem odd that a South Korean company would make chips in the US destined to be sent to Asian assembly plants, one analyst said the move made strategic sense.
The factories mainly supply the Japanese market, but they are also a source of engines and parts for assembly plants overseas as well as some vehicles that are made only in Japan.
The government's response was not to raise import duties again, but to pass a measure intended to persuade foreign makers to revive the Russian car industry by setting up local assembly plants.
Over the past three decades, they came in waves, working long hours in sweatshops, construction sites and assembly plants, enduring poor working conditions in order to save a little cash to remit home.
Merrill Lynch estimates that in North America as many as 5 of GM's 12 car assembly plants and 13 of its 19 truck assembly plants would need to close, resulting in 60, 000 white- and blue-collar job cuts.
If a merger were to occur, up to half of Chrysler's 14 assembly plants would close, resulting in 24, 000 hourly and administrative job cuts, Grant Thornton says. (About 5, 000 cuts have already been announced.) In all, the company says 30, 000 to 40, 000 of Chrysler's 67, 000 existing jobs would be eliminated.
If the people in the Great Plains are going to be subsidised to do something, does it not make more sense to subsidise jobs in the construction and assembly of power plants and the generation of clean power rather than an unhelpful distortion in the world's agricultural markets?
The union, which did not return calls from NPR, will also work with General Motors as it cuts 25, 000 jobs at US assembly and component part plants.
The two companies will share fabrication and final assembly of the vehicles among plants at Anniston, Ala.
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