Posted on 04/04/2011 12:48:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Toyota just announced it will shut down all of its North American factories due to shortages of parts from Japan.
This is a temporary shutdown, which will affect about 25,000 workers. The length of the shutdown is unknown and depends on how fast Japanese parts factories can get back in operation, spokesman Mike Gross told the AP.
Toyota gets about 15 percent of its parts from Japan.
Last month GM's Shreveport plant was shutdown temporarily due to troubles in Japan.
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Cab you expand a bit on the labor and government problems?
Is it more expensive to manufacture here or go out of business because of mother nature. Most good companies plan for “what if”.
Toyota did plan for what if. They said “What if we let the unions in? What if we have to buy our parts from union run manufacturers? Etc., etc....
They rolled the dice. They’ll roll ‘em again. They don’t lose too often.
I do understand their “just in time” no-overhead to store excessive inventory process. That wasnt what we were talking about though. I’m pointing out that Japan still manufactures a lot of the parts. They apparently value having some manufacturing jobs at home.
Theres another big nation that has a messianic cult that demands that their manufacturing sector be utterly dismantled.
I presume all employees are eligible of Unemployment Insurance, Right??
And for how long will plants be shut?
Oh well...
Can’t get the parts from China like everyone else?
LOL.
Actually...a lot of the parts Toyota puts in their cars are made in the USA. It must be really bad in Japan that it would shut down the US factories....there are probably some key parts that Toyota still keeps making in Japan
Parts that they would not ship out of country to be made....so not to have them counterfitted.
Has anyone heard of other plant closures in NA? I was told (by a Ford engineer) last week that Kentucky Truck and Mustang production would be shutting down this week due to shortages, but have not seen anything in the news. Given the difficulties I’m seeing (Tier 1 supplier), I’m guessing a good many more plants are on the verge of shutting down as pipelines run dry.
Woops...San Antonio pols will find some way to spin this as the fault of the Texas Republicans.
Colonel, USAFR
A former collegue of mine opened an elecronics component factory in China. It is not the utopia of cheap labor we would think. Lot's of grifters in the layers of government too.
Deliveries, trucks, energy, and random regulation are a problem.
geez - is that a 20mm cannon he's shooting out of the back of that truck? How the heck is he doing that without tipping over? Is that a stock suspension, or is it the special "technicals" edition?
Imagine manufacturing in a global market and your workforce is made up of Islamic persons and you’re in the suburbs of Cairo, Tehran, or Islamabad. Imagine a just in time manufacturing process in those regions? Imagine the interuptions?
Talk about stability problems?!
Another torpedo broadside our economy.
Party time in the U.S. Union halls
I believe that many of the parts are high-tech parts that need special facilities. I heard a guy on Cavuto's show last week say that many of the automotive electronic modules are made in China but the "wafers" for them are manufactured in a plant in Sendai that was badly damaged. Wafers require a clean room and clean rooms take a long time to build and qualify.
Its amazing that according to the article, 15% of the parts come from Japan...that must mean that 85% of the parts come from here in America. I suspect this will have an impact on those suppliers because if the final assembly must shut down then the parts suppliers must also shut down.
That Toyota has a month of parts already in the supply chain before they get to shut-down says a lot in itself.
Yeah but not necessarily from US owned companies. Most of these suppliers are Japanese companies that supplied Toyota in Japan and followed Toyota here and set up shop here. If it were up to me Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Hyundai etc would never been allowed to open up automobile plants on US soil
So the profits go back to Japan while Americans with proper slave mentality cheer Toyota for making jobs
Yeah but not necessarily from US owned companies. Most of these suppliers are Japanese companies that supplied Toyota in Japan and followed Toyota here and set up shop here. If it were up to me Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Hyundai etc would never been allowed to open up automobile plants on US soil
So the profits go back to Japan while Americans with proper slave mentality cheer Toyota for making jobs
The Japanese are economic nationalists, that use trade only to build up their manufacturing sector.
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