A Special Edition of Under the Pentastar for the week of 5-21-10 as the company celebrates the launch of the all-new Jeep Grand Cherokee as well as nearly 1,100 new jobs at the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit that makes it.
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Marchionne Announces 2nd Shift for Grand Cherokee Plant, Almost 1,100 New Jobsby Scott Anderson
May 21, 2010 3:56 PM
More than 1,700 current UAW-represented employees who work at the largest assembly...  |
World Class Manufacturing: What it Means for The Chrysler Group, 2011 Jeep® Grand Cherokeeby Scott Anderson
May 21, 2010 12:12 PM
Nearly every component in the 2011 Jeep® Grand Cherokee has been rethought, every design assumption challenged and no detail, no matter how small, left unexamined. It’s fitting that the same is true for the plant that makes it: the Jefferson North (Detroit) Assembly Plant. The nearly 3-million-square-foot assembly plant that’s been building the Jeep Grand Cherokee since it was first introduced in 1992 is among the first Chrysler Group LLC manufacturing facility to undergo a significant transformation through the World Class Manufacturing process. WCM isn’t a window-dressing acronym masking minor changes to assembling vehicles. It’s a bottom-up... |
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