The triple disaster that hit Japan in March not only knocked out auto production in Japan, but have also affected overseas plants, which still rely on Japan for parts. Earlier this month, we reported that Perodua is on track for full recovery, and will maintain its 2011 sales targets. Now, news from Thailand indicates that Toyota’s Thai plants will see manufacturing go back to normal by next week, May 23.
This is due to parts suppliers in Thailand and abroad recovering faster than expected. A spokesman said the regular daily double shifts at each plant would resume and overtime production on each regular shift would be partly restored. The company has briefed its dealers, a move that suggests they could resume taking orders without fear.
Earlier, the Japanese giant announced a 70% production cut from April 25 to June 4. During the slowdown period, Toyota held intensive training courses and activities for its workers to improve their skills, said senior VP at Toyota Motor Thailand Vudhigorn Suriyachantananont.
Toyota, the largest producer in Thailand, runs three plants. One in Samrong, Samut Prakan province, makes 250,000 Hilux pickup trucks per year. The Gateway passenger car plant in Chachoengsao province rolls out 200,000 Camry, Prius, Altis, Vios and Yaris models while another in Ban Pho makes 120,000 Hilux and Fortuners annually. Some of these are exported to Malaysia, of course.
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Between these three plants compared to our plant in Shah Alam which more far better in terms of quality? cost of producing a car?
Definately the Thai operations bro,they have the capacity to make almost 1000 cars a day now(at their main plant and excluding the rest),exported to no less than 15 countries in both RHD and LHD variants.Quality is top notch coz they have a high level of automation over there.
The Shah Alam plant does not make that many cars from what my sources tell me.
Cheers.
Bro,
Why you simply assume our plant has inferior quality to that of Thailand? Think about it, if your argument is so simplistic based on the number of cars, then the more cars you produce, the higher the chances of error no?
Whatever it is, I think it’s not fair to just assume like that la.. the country is not where it is today for nothing you kno… credit is where credit is due brader..
I am NOT assuming my friend,never have,never will.I’m an automobile engineer in this industry for the last 25 years.In my profession,you simply cannot assume or think so,you MUST know so.A is A,B is B.That’s it.Besides,i have been to all of the abovementioned Toyota plants in Thailand and also many other plants here in Malaysia as part of my production analysis study tour.
I have nothing against the Toyota plant in Shah Alam,and i NEVER said that their quality is inferior,did i?No right?They just don’t have the capacity to produce as many cars as the Toyota plants in Thailand,that’s all i said.Maybe after the RM100 plus million that UMW is going to invest in their Shah Alam plant,their production capacity will increase ten fold.Please don’t misconstrue what i commented.
Cheers bro.
I wonder why Honda has not announced anything at all with regard to this.
I’m pretty sure they were affected equally as bad be it for thier CKD productions here and their sister company also in Thailand.
Perplexing to say the least.
Cheers.
adakah toyota hilux trd 4.0 akan d jual dlm pasaran umw toyota malaysia..?
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