Canada GM Plant Production capacity

[FAF]

Does any one knows what the production capasity of the camaro plant will be. It seams there are about 11K +/_ camaros on order how many will they be able to produce per Day and with the economy and vendors status.
Assuming the start on time in march 16.

Sorry for the thumbs down It looks to me like a quastion mark , know I see its not
FAF

[bob2the2nd]

this has been covered a lot but ill try and explain the best as possible.

First they have to ramp up production meaning they arent just going to be cranking out X number of camaros a day.

Second, in order to ensure quality ramp up could be anywhere from a couple of weeks to several weeks, we just dont know.

Third, what GM doesnt want to do is fly through all of the pre-orders and be dumping camaros out onto lots like most of the cars now. meaning they arent just going to build those pre orders as fast as humanly possibly.

What does all of this mean guessing is almost impossible. numbers thrown around however seem to indicate an ability when fully ramped up on one shift something like 300-350 a day as a best guess

[FAF]

Originally Posted by bob2the2nd

this has been covered a lot but ill try and explain the best as possible.

First they have to ramp up production meaning they arent just going to be cranking out X number of camaros a day.

Second, in order to ensure quality ramp up could be anywhere from a couple of weeks to several weeks, we just dont know.

Third, what GM doesnt want to do is fly through all of the pre-orders and be dumping camaros out onto lots like most of the cars now. meaning they arent just going to build those pre orders as fast as humanly possibly.

What does all of this mean guessing is almost impossible. numbers thrown around however seem to indicate an ability when fully ramped up on one shift something like 300-350 a day as a best guess

so all the talking they only have one month of back order thats nothing.

[TheCaptain]

What's with the thumbs down for our Oshawa plant? It has the highest quality for all the GM plants.

[FAF]

Originally Posted by TheCaptain

What's with the thumbs down for our Oshawa plant? It has the highest quality for all the GM plants.

not thumbs down it just seems there is a lot of waiting and when does order get done 30 days later what is the plant going to do the economy and GM are in trouble.

Is there any web site from the plant that you can track your order, base on the six letter code the dealer gave me? without having to be calling the dealer

[Adam]

yeah there's no way they'll pump 11k out in a month. They'll be lucky to do it in 6.

[FAF]

Originally Posted by Adam

yeah there's no way they'll pump 11k out in a month. They'll be lucky to do it in 6.

Why not 11k at 300 per day (low average) is 36 working days or about 1 1/2 months

[FAF]

if they can't produce at least 300 a day that probably why GM is in financial trouble Toyota US plans do that on befor first break.

[Adam]

Yeah not really. It's not like people are lining up to buy cars and GM isn't producing them fast enough. And it's easy to make rice grinders :P

[Mr_Draco]

Originally Posted by FAF

Why not 11k at 300 per day (low average) is 36 working days or about 1 1/2 months

They aren't making 300 a day. Right now they are making about 40 a day. It'll be around start of May at least before they reach full production capabilities and that's assuming they don't run into any complications. Also in your 11k (actually up to 12k now) figure you are not taking into account the V6 showroom car that each dealer will get and there are over 6k dealers so you're actually looking at 18k cars.

[Ject]

Originally Posted by FAF

if they can't produce at least 300 a day that probably why GM is in financial trouble Toyota US plans do that on befor first break.

When you hit the pedal of a car... are you instantly going the max speed it can go?? no, you gradually get up to speed.

This is the same case in manufacturing.. it will take them a month or 2 (possibly 3?) to get up to full production speed... plus they aren't going to mass produce and have tons of cars just sitting on dealer lots like they have in the past. That is part of what has gotten them into trouble... over producing.

[GM'r_For_Life]

What are the thoughts on this possibility

Pilot Build Aprox All V6 500
Dealer Cars Aprox All V6 6000
PreOrders Aprox 12000
PreOrders Aprox 30% V6 3600
Aprox Total V6 10100 Including 55% V6
PreOrders Aprox 70% V8 8400 Dealers Cars 45% V8
Total Production 18500
Production Per Day 250
Days to Build 74
Days Per Week 5
Weeks to Build 14.8
Weeks Per Month Average 4.33
Months to Build 3.418013857
Start of Production 3/16/2009
Completed by Aprox 7/1/2009

Note that this is taking 250 per day as a production number.

[GM'r_For_Life]

That sure did not post the way it looked before I posted it.

[TheCaptain]

Eh, you can still read it...