GM : The Project Yellowstone Plants - Rosario
Plant, Argentina
Opened in
October 1997, Rosario should be the future model plant for GM.
Plants
Rosario
Cordoba
Products
Corsa 4 door
Corsa 5 door station wagon
engines
Siverardo Pick-up (CKD)
Blazer
Capacity
84,000 cars p.a
25,000 cars p.a.
No. of Employees
1,520
500
The Plant is fully integrated
:
stamping
body shop
paint
assembly even
engines
Management is from
Eisenach, Germany. Rüdiger Grundacker, former operations
manager in Eisenach was assigned as plant manager Rosario. 70 managers
of Rosario worked at Eisenach before.
Rosario is the model plant
for the new factories, build up in
Rosario is equipped
with its own engine plant, producing
1.6 liter versions
of GM´s family I engines
1.4 liter gasoline
may be added
1.7 liter Isuzu
diesel later the year
The body shop is
only 32% automated with 42 robots.
In Rosario a
production system similar to QNPS (Quality Network Production
System, the GM approach of the Toyota Production System) is
in use. It contains 36 elements.
The assembly has
the typical U shape and is 37 m long. The typical lean
manufacturing elements are introduced as
