How is Production Doing at Cuautitlan Assembly Plant?

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Where are they published? Ford Authority?
I've always seen it as a press release. It's then carried by business-related wire services. I think I saw January numbers on CNBC. Someone posted on here the next day.
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I haven’t seen any production numbers lately on how the Cuautitlan Plant is doing with numbers of cars produced each week in a while (if it has been reported I apologize for not seeing the post) and was wondering how they’re doing now. With Covid problems and the chip shortage I wonder how much this is affecting them. I read somewhere that Ford is giving this plant priority for chips as they’re producing a car that is in high demand. I know many on the forum have taken delivery or are watching as their cars progress through the transportation process but there are still many of us who haven’t had our cars produced yet and are wondering how the production numbers are progressing each week. Also, is there still a backlog of cars that haven’t been shipped and are still sitting in parking lots around the plant.
No backlog.
 
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No backlog.
Thank you. The backlog was cleared up pretty fast judging from the numbers of cars reported last December. There has been no recent satellite pictures I have seen either.
 

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For comparison, the F-150 plants in Dearborn and Kansas City runs 16 hours a day, 6 days a week at 60+ jobs/hour and even then they need overtime to meet demand... 26 per hour is probably a record for slowest line speed from a mainstream automaker. I have to believe that's battery supply limited or due to the launch ramp up.
I remember going on a tour of the Jaguar pant in the UK in the 90s (I think this was pre-Ford.) The line ran incredibly slow. We were actually allowed to ask the line workers questions as they were assembling the vehicles. They all had an incredible amount of pride in the cars they were building. Based on that experience, I never quite understood why Jaguar had quality issues. The people seemed to really care, and they certainly weren’t rushed.
 

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Where are they published? Ford Authority?
I know monthly production numbers can be found at Automotive News, but you may need a subscription. If you can't get them at Auto News, check Ward's Auto World
 


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I've always seen it as a press release. It's then carried by business-related wire services. I think I saw January numbers on CNBC. Someone posted on here the next day.
media.ford.com it's inside the monthly sales release PDF attached to the press release.
 

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Battery supply is what limited the first year to 50,000. It takes new battery plants, more lithium, boron, nickel etc. which are mined from ore. It's not like making more widgets. Battery supply somewhat limits the whole BEV industry right now. I'm sure Ford is working on it's future battery supply.
I get that. I'm expressing my belief that Ford should have already built their own in-house battery plant at CSAP prior to the launch of Mach-E. It was obvious that this thing would sell, why limit yourself like Ford seems to have done?
 

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Battery supply somewhat limits the whole BEV industry right now. I'm sure Ford is working on it's future battery supply.
Yup, and the 10 year ban on SKI batteries sure isn't going to help with that. Ford got a 4 year exception, but just for the F-150. The MME isn't currently using SKI batteries anyway, but it will have an impact on the entire BEV supply.
 

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26 per hour is probably a record for slowest line speed from a mainstream automaker. I have to believe that's battery supply limited or due to the launch ramp up.
That's pretty much just what it was designed for. I'm actually pretty sure they're running overspeed, because I seem to remember 23 or 25 JPH net.

I doubt the Cuatitlan plant is capacitized for 300k/yr. Not sure what its max yearly output was, when it made the Fiesta, but I doubt it ever produced 300k in a year.
Fiesta was also low volume, in the 25 jph range.

Achieving JPH costs money and space, and we build facilities to accommodate the number of vehicles that we think we can sell.

A simple example: 25 jph is 2:24 cycle time. Take away transit time from station to station, and in two minutes a robot might apply 24 spot welds. If you want to build twice as many cars, you're going to need to double the number of welding robots, which doubles the amount of tooling cost, as well as find the floorspace to put them.

And, of course, lower-volume programs also usually protect space for future products to include product-specific tooling on the same line. I can't comment about Cuautitlan specifically, but in theory, you might add another 25 jph product to the same line, do some facilities magic, and end up with a line that produces a total of, say, 55 jph total.

I was at this plant when the Fiesta was launching in 2010, and the guys and gals indeed were great to work with .
Where at? Body guy myself.
 

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Where at? Body guy myself.
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I visited there 2-3 times during launch, while working for a supplier of climate control components.
 

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Where are they published? Ford Authority?
shareholder.ford.com. the very last page of their monthly sales report has their production of every type of car in every plant. It is pretty transparent for a carmaker, but that is Jim's theory to get people to love the stock again. He is trying to be transparent as to their turn around with the analyst community. GM and other only report every 3 months. Ford has taken a different path, and as a ford shareholder I don't hate it so far :)
 
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shareholder.ford.com. the very last page of their monthly sales report has their production of every type of car in every plant. It is pretty transparent for a carmaker, but that is Jim's theory to get people to love the stock again. He is trying to be transparent as to their turn around with the analyst community. GM and other only report every 3 months. Ford has taken a different path, and as a ford shareholder I don't hate it so far :)
I guess Ford's stock is surging after Farley reported he wants them to look into producing their own batteries.
 

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This thread seems played out, but here's 2021 MME US sales numbers through Nov 2021 from fordauthority.com:
Sales Results - USA - Mustang Mach-E
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
20212383,7392,6371,9511,9452,4652,8541,4481,5783,08821,943
20200033
A majority of total Cuautitlan production went to Europe.
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