2nd shift laid off....
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Sure, no one here can or will speak authoritatively about the current situation at the BG plant, but anyone paying attention to the news can draw rather obvious conclusions. As I said, if it hasn't happened yet, it will at some point soon. Supply chains all over the world are being interrupted, and that is documented fact.
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NCD will get "coronary" seeing this!
Exactly!
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Sure, no one here can or will speak authoritatively about the current situation at the BG plant, but anyone paying attention to the news can draw rather obvious conclusions. As I said, if it hasn't happened yet, it will at some point soon. Supply chains all over the world are being interrupted, and that is documented fact.
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That’s messed up.
It’s truly amazing how people are so quick to spread false info just to seek the attention.
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Makes zero sense they would furlough the 2nd shift they just started up given the fact they have more orders than they can fill. And they would not furlough because of a parking space issue given truck carriers are loading up cars now faster than they can produce more.
IMO the only things that make sense is either the OP doesn’t have the correct intel, BG just discovered a major production flaw or they encountered a major unexpected supply chain problem.
IMO the only things that make sense is either the OP doesn’t have the correct intel, BG just discovered a major production flaw or they encountered a major unexpected supply chain problem.
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Why would I care to get attention or spread false information on a forum of a couple thousand people? I am just giving information I got. You guys can believe me or not, it does not hurt me. But the 2nd shift is currently laid off. You can take it to the bank.
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Since everything in manufacturing is now "just-in-time" delivery of parts (no stockpiling) any disruption of the parts flow will slow or stop production. "Just-in-time" parts flow has an obvious flaw, but manufacturers don't care about making production quotas like they used to back in the day.
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I had a friend, who was a president of a big Japanese plastics division who told me the only one who does Lean Manufacturing (just-in-time) well is Toyoda only because they OWN all their suppliers.
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GM had an opportunity to learn lean from Toyota with NUMMI and GM blew them off. Worked great at NUMMI but GM utterly failed to integrate the lessons learned across their other factories. Toyota learned how to work with American autoworkers and clearly ended up with the better end of that opportunity.
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My bet is on supplier issues. I am currently at a factory, and we are having to reschedule units due to supplier issues. The ports have a lot of backlog due to the virus. We are even having to check our suppliers suppliers for their parts availability.
You would be surprised on how much China feeds the machine!
You would be surprised on how much China feeds the machine!
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GM had an opportunity to learn lean from Toyota with NUMMI and GM blew them off. Worked great at NUMMI but GM utterly failed to integrate the lessons learned across their other factories. Toyota learned how to work with American autoworkers and clearly ended up with the better end of that opportunity.
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Since everything in manufacturing is now "just-in-time" delivery of parts (no stockpiling) any disruption of the parts flow will slow or stop production. "Just-in-time" parts flow has an obvious flaw, but manufacturers don't care about making production quotas like they used to back in the day.
I'd take mine with no wheels and a credit, lol. The options are just terrible.
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Does GM publish what percentage of the parts they use come from China? With a significant portion of China still in lockdown, these kinds of outcomes are unavoidable, hope I'm wrong but suspect we'll be seeing more of this as the year progresses.
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Shipping takes time once manufacturing starts up. Of course, once that end of the supply chain is opened, the delivery/assembly on our side might be just shutting down. A worse case scenario could mean the April consensus allocations are smaller or even none. Let’s hope not. Regardless, if history is any teacher, we won’t be told, it will have to be ferreted out just like this development.
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Everybody, listen to Jeremy. The only one posting in this thread that has any insight on the situation at the factory,
