Why does Ford keep the Rawsonville Plant open? It is a low level assemble plant that primarily puts together part bins for the Livonia transmission plant.
I thought Ford got rid of their parts plants during the spun off with Visteon in the 2000'.
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Doesn't the assembly of Hybrid batteries fall under the category of low level assemble, similar to putting together parts bins?
I thought the whole Visteon spin off was done to get Ford out of the parts business.
You can close the plant but you cannot eliminate the UAW workers there.
UAW plants are loosing money feeding these inefficient process and workers that are none value added to the company.
They can stop paying the clowns at the helm and save more
@1lof+1s6cKpyK - Actually the village WAS at the bottom of Belleville lake, before the lake was drained, the debris removed, and the water level restored, but yeah, we get the point. Rawsonville could be a great resource if it were properly managed, but when I was there it was run by the union, and as a result, it was a text book example of how to drive manufacturing costs up.
@1lii+1s6cKpyK thanks for the history lesson. Here's another.
The village of Rawsonville sits at the bottom of Belleville lake. It was abandoned and then flooded but the lake when the Huron was dammed.
Now, the same should happen to the Rawsonville plant.
The batteries needed for our Hybrid vehicles are assembled in Rawsonville. The demand for Hybrid vehicles are very high at the moment and all our batteries needed for Hybrids for the next few years will come from here.
The village of Rawsonville has a lot of Ford family history. The Rawsonville plant itself is quite large and has or had many interesting features, like a very large and capable tool and die shop, truck yard, rail yard, a power plant featuring a large gas turbine generator, and the hydroelectric dam across the street between Ford lake and Belleville lake was built and owned by Ford until it was later donated to another municipality. I believe the area and the plant was very near and dear to the Ford family for many reasons. It's also the daycare center for Ford executives kids. If you look at the work history of many of the executives, especially prior to the current regime, many worked their on their way up. It's basically a job shop now, which is sad, because it was once a very busy, bustling, productive place full of white and blue collar workers.
move Ford NEXT to Rawsonville! :-)
If we are talking saving money, firing vp of vehicle hardware engineering would be on top of my list.
I think that would be a direct save of $2m in pay and an indirect save of $500m in f***ups due to his involvement can be prevented
Someone is getting money from Ypsilanti Township or Washtenaw county to keep that place open.
Bribes are very common. My guess? Bill doesn't pay Washtenaw property taxes in return for keeping Rawsonville open.
We must need it for parts for all the recalls we have.