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Jeep will follow sister brand's example; Smart has had success integrating suppliers at plant.(News)

Automotive News Europe, August, 2004

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Byline: Ralph Kisiel

In almost 10 years of trying, the auto industry has yet to prove that the so-called "plant of the future" that integrates suppliers into assembly has a future.

Chrysler group's Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio, USA, is the latest effort to integrate suppliers and have them absorb some of the financial risk.

Suppliers will invest $300 million (about [euro]245 million) in the remodeled plant, which will assemble its first Wranglers under the new organizational regime in 2006.

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The suppliers will operate and staff three assembly operations. Kuka ...

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Automotive Industry

Jeep will follow sister brand's example; Smart has had success integrating suppliers at plant.(News)

Automotive News Europe, August, 2004

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