Articles Tagged with ''Toyota Motor Co.''

TOYOTA CITY, Japan—Toyota Motor Corp. plans to adopt a modular manufacturing strategy that will allow it to operate smaller assembly lines.

Ford is marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henry Ford and the 100th anniversary of the assembly line.

BELDEN, MS—Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi and four local community colleges are launching a program to train people for advanced manufacturing jobs.

TUPELO, MS—One year after it opened, Toyota’s assembly plant here is producing some 600 cars daily, about where company officials hoped to be with its eighth and newest North American factory.

HUNTSVILLE, AL—Construction starts in a few weeks for a 300,000-square-foot expansion of Toyota’s engine assembly plant here. The expansion will create 125 new jobs, and production is expected to begin in March 2014.

TOKYO—Honda, Nissan and Toyota are pushing to boost production at their North American assembly plants.

TRAVERSE CITY, MI—Toyota plans to build and design more vehicles in North America as a hedge against currency fluctuation.

CAMBRIDGE, ON—Toyota is planning to invest more than $100 million in assembly plant here to increase production of the Lexus RX. The automaker also plans to hire an additional 400 workers.

TOKYO—Toyota sold 177,795 vehicles in the United States in May 2012, a 60 percent increased compared with May 2011.

PRINCENTON, IN—The mechanized loom that inspired the late Toyota executive Taiichi Ohno to formulate the principles of lean manufacturing is on display at automaker’s assembly plant here.