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From a roll of steel to a Dodge Charger Pursuit in about a day and a half.
By Pohce Fleet Manager Staff
A recent meeting of the Chrysler Police Advisory Board was held in Brampton [Toronto] Canada. The Brampton Assembly plant is the home of the Dodge Charger Pursuit. The plant is also die final assembly for the retail Chrysler 300, Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger. The first police vehicle produced at Brampton Assembly was the Dodge Intrepid. The police version of the Dodge Magnum was also produced at this plant.
Brampton Assembly was built in 1986 as an American Motors-Renault plant. Chrysler purchased the plant from AMC '-Renault in 1 987. Covering 269 acres, the 3 million square feet plant is 80 miles directly north of Niagara balls, across Lake Ontario. Brampton Assembly has about 2,900 hourly and salary employees.
About half of the Brampton Assembly production is made up of Chargers, with a quarter of the capacity used to make Challengers and a quarter of the capacity for Chrysler 300s. All of the special variations of these cars arc also made at Brampton, including SRT8, AWL) and manual trans versions.
The Charger Pursuit in both V6 and V8 is critically important to Brampton Assembly - it makes up 5 percent to 8 perceur of the total production. With the expectation sales of police package Chargers will soon double (or triple), this police business is becoming even more important to the plant. Brampton Assembly operates on a two-shifr/5-day-a-weck basis. In the past, they have been able to move to a three-shift operation so they can easily meet demand.
Since the recent alliance with FIAT, all the Chrysler Group LLC assembly plants, specifically the Brampton Assembly, have adopted World Class Manufacturing (WCM) processes and procedures. WCM has a focus on zero defects at each workstation or assembly step.
In addition, WCM puts a focus on zero waste, zero machine breakdowns and zero in-process inventory. In each area where something is greater than zero (short of absolute perfection), WCM helps to identify the problem into one or more of four categories: 1) man, 2) material, 3) method, 4) machine. This helps to identify the problem and focus resources on the solution.
Brampton Assembly is...