With 35 plants in operation around the world, car-maker Ford is doubling the number of models it can make on each production line from three to seven.
Led by the American company’s nine new plants in Asia, its biggest manufacturing investment in 50 years, Peter Daenan, manufacturing engineering chief for Ford South America, explains that new Ford sites will be “less asset intensive” so that fewer machines and lines will be required to make the same amount of vehicles. “We want to…
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