Ugh, moved production date.
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Ugh, moved production date.
I had a production week of 15 Sep for my 2015 3Lt Z51 Laguna blue and was told yesterday it has been moved to 6 Oct. has any one else been moved and more importantly do you know why?
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My TPW has been set at 9.15 for weeks now. As of yesterday it was still stated as such. You have scared me enough to check again today.
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On other Chevy orders, yes and for one order the 10/08/2012 TPW never changed though the car was actually built 11/07/2012. I believed it was a supplier issue although Donlen said it was a verification issue.
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Unfortunately target production weeks can move as the sequencing of components for the build starts to take place. It is important to remember that these are simply target dates, that is what the T in T.P.W. indicates. You will likely never find out what prompted the move. It can be a scheduling issue or a supplier issue that affected the build of your car. The line keeps moving and if there is a part availability issue that affects only certain production options, those cars will be bumped and replaced in that current week with cars that don't need that particular part or assembly step until the situation can be remedied.
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Unfortunately target production weeks can move as the sequencing of components for the build starts to take place. It is important to remember that these are simply target dates, that is what the T in T.P.W. indicates. You will likely never find out what prompted the move. It can be a scheduling issue or a supplier issue that affected the build of your car. The line keeps moving and if there is a part availability issue that affects only certain production options, those cars will be bumped and replaced in that current week with cars that don't need that particular part or assembly step until the situation can be remedied.
curious however if tpw's ever move up for the same reasons you outlined?
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Yes, they do. Since your car was moved out, another car may have moved up in to that slot. Of course, notable exceptions to that would be on material availability or scheduled production downtime where they simply would not be able to build as many cars as they planned within a given timeframe. This then would simply push some cars out without pulling in any dates.
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Yes, they do. Since your car was moved out, another car may have moved up in to that slot. Of course, notable exceptions to that would be on material availability or scheduled production downtime where they simply would not be able to build as many cars as they planned within a given timeframe. This then would simply push some cars out without pulling in any dates.
G.M. needs to light a fire under their suppliers.
After an entire year of production there is no excuse for factory parts to be in short supply.
Just my .02
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There are people picking up their Vettes at the NCM as we speak, while we are sitting here waiting for constraints to be lifted.
G.M. needs to light a fire under their suppliers.
After an entire year of production there is no excuse for factory parts to be in short supply.
Just my .02
G.M. needs to light a fire under their suppliers.
After an entire year of production there is no excuse for factory parts to be in short supply.
Just my .02
The assembly plant runs on JIT. They don't have warehouses full of parts waiting to assembled. They have materials showing up to the plant with a week to spare before being put on the cars. They basically have a week on hand, the supplier has a week on hand and in many cases there is a weeks worth of materials on trucks from the supplier to the plant. It's called a milk run. There are trucks that make the rounds and you better have your parts on the dock when that truck backs up. If any part in that rotation has an issue it can affect the scheduling of the line. No supplier is perfect on every part every week every time.
Look, the 2015 is a new model year and there are always changes from one model year to the next. Some are announced but many, many more are not announced and owners will never even notice them. Things change and the folks scheduling the line deal with those changes every single hour of every single day. It isn't as easy as turning on a faucet and filling cups.
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I see and when you worked you never had issues and everything you ever did was exactly as you expected it to be and exactly when you planned on it?
The assembly plant runs on JIT. They don't have warehouses full of parts waiting to assembled. They have materials showing up to the plant with a week to spare before being put on the cars. They basically have a week on hand, the supplier has a week on hand and in many cases there is a weeks worth of materials on trucks from the supplier to the plant. It's called a milk run. There are trucks that make the rounds and you better have your parts on the dock when that truck backs up. If any part in that rotation has an issue it can affect the scheduling of the line. No supplier is perfect on every part every week every time.
Look, the 2015 is a new model year and there are always changes from one model year to the next. Some are announced but many, many more are not announced and owners will never even notice them. Things change and the folks scheduling the line deal with those changes every single hour of every single day. It isn't as easy as turning on a faucet and filling cups.
The assembly plant runs on JIT. They don't have warehouses full of parts waiting to assembled. They have materials showing up to the plant with a week to spare before being put on the cars. They basically have a week on hand, the supplier has a week on hand and in many cases there is a weeks worth of materials on trucks from the supplier to the plant. It's called a milk run. There are trucks that make the rounds and you better have your parts on the dock when that truck backs up. If any part in that rotation has an issue it can affect the scheduling of the line. No supplier is perfect on every part every week every time.
Look, the 2015 is a new model year and there are always changes from one model year to the next. Some are announced but many, many more are not announced and owners will never even notice them. Things change and the folks scheduling the line deal with those changes every single hour of every single day. It isn't as easy as turning on a faucet and filling cups.
This is not a scheduling problem, this is a problem caused by suppliers that cannot meet the needs of the company that they were contracted by.
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I see and when you worked you never had issues and everything you ever did was exactly as you expected it to be and exactly when you planned on it?
The assembly plant runs on JIT. They don't have warehouses full of parts waiting to assembled. They have materials showing up to the plant with a week to spare before being put on the cars. They basically have a week on hand, the supplier has a week on hand and in many cases there is a weeks worth of materials on trucks from the supplier to the plant. It's called a milk run. There are trucks that make the rounds and you better have your parts on the dock when that truck backs up. If any part in that rotation has an issue it can affect the scheduling of the line. No supplier is perfect on every part every week every time.
Look, the 2015 is a new model year and there are always changes from one model year to the next. Some are announced but many, many more are not announced and owners will never even notice them. Things change and the folks scheduling the line deal with those changes every single hour of every single day. It isn't as easy as turning on a faucet and filling cups.
The assembly plant runs on JIT. They don't have warehouses full of parts waiting to assembled. They have materials showing up to the plant with a week to spare before being put on the cars. They basically have a week on hand, the supplier has a week on hand and in many cases there is a weeks worth of materials on trucks from the supplier to the plant. It's called a milk run. There are trucks that make the rounds and you better have your parts on the dock when that truck backs up. If any part in that rotation has an issue it can affect the scheduling of the line. No supplier is perfect on every part every week every time.
Look, the 2015 is a new model year and there are always changes from one model year to the next. Some are announced but many, many more are not announced and owners will never even notice them. Things change and the folks scheduling the line deal with those changes every single hour of every single day. It isn't as easy as turning on a faucet and filling cups.
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