Modular workstations help GM supplier provide "just-in-time" delivery of engine/transmission assemblies.(Application From the Field)

Material Handling Product News, June, 2005

Android Industries has been a BM supplier since 1989. At its seventh and newest facility in Shreveport LA, it takes top quality outfitting or "engine dressing" of approximately 1,000 BM engine/transmission assemblies per day, sequenced and delivered "just-in-time." Eighteen-wheelers make the one mile drive from Android Industries' new assembly plant to GM's manufacturing complex, delivering completed engine and transmission assemblies for "just-in-time" placement onto awaiting truck chassis.

According to Mark Beer, Lead Engineer and member of the launch team for this new facility that went on-line in 2003, the company's commitment to build in Shreveport was the result of being awarded a BM assembly contract to support the introduction of two new truck...

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