Welcome to SaveOurPlant.com, a site dedicated to providing information and discussion on why General Motors should select their facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee for the production of a new vehicle.
The report listed below is a brief overview of the positive attributes that underscore why General Motors should keep the Spring Hill plant functioning in the New General Motors reorganization.
First and foremost, the Spring Hill production facility possesses the manufacturing processes and team member culture that GM is trying to install in every facility that they will continue operating under their new viability plan.
GM has renovated the Spring Hill plant over the last 18 months, spending over a billion dollars to install the latest state of the art flexible technology. This new technology includes the Bill of Process 4.0, giving Spring Hill the capability to build up to 3 different architectures and 6 different products all on the same line. This system is also capable of building any vehicle architecture produced. Due to the flexibility of the Spring Hill plant, retooling for the production of another car (from the currently produced Chevrolet Traverse) would be minimal.
The Spring Hill plant also has constructed a new super flexible paint shop that includes the latest environmental enhancements. This system is capable of processing any variety of product configurations that are required and is tooled up to meet the demands of the tremendously flexible body shop.
The flexibility to build any product that the market place demands will be key to the future of General Motors.
The President’s Automotive Task Force has demanded that GM streamline their number of plants and keep those facilities that are the most flexible and profitable. The Spring Hill facility meets these requirements.
• Spring Hill is one of the 3 newest GM Vehicle Assembly Factories in the United States
• Spring Hill has the newest and most flexible Body Shop and Paint Shop in North America.
• Spring Hill is the recipient of 5 straight "Chairman’s Honors Awards for Manufacturing Excellence" - the most consecutive yearly honors for any GM facility.
• Spring Hill has received 4 consecutive "People Make Quality Happen" awards for the high quality that this workforce has produced.
• Spring Hill recently launched the new Chevrolet Traverse Crossover Vehicle and scored the highest quality in the launch of a new product in General Motors history. This facility has a core competency of launching new products with great efficiency and quality.
• Spring Hill Manufacturing has the most progressive labor - management relationship of any GM Plant. There has never been a local strike at this location over labor issues pursuant to the local contract.
• The United Autoworkers Union in Spring Hill recently negotiated the most competitive, flexible, and progressive agreement in existence at any General Motors Plant delivering a tremendous cost savings to the corporation in labor costs. The contract was ratified by a 93% margin.
• The Chevrolet Traverse is the top Selling Crossover Vehicle in the World, beating out all of our competitors-foreign and domestic last month (May 2009).
Traverse 8204
Edge 7628
Pilot 6569
Highlander 5595
Acadia 4764
Journey 4436
Venza 3793
Enclave 3731
Murano 3567
Flex 3190
• Spring Hill Manufacturing has 2873 Hourly Employees, 324 management personnel and approximately 850 supplier employees that work at the Spring Hill Plant.
• The Spring Hill Plant is responsible for creating nearly 30,000 Jobs in middle Tennessee.
• Spring Hill Manufacturing is a very significant contributor to the tax base for both Maury County and the city of Spring Hill, Tennessee.
• The Spring Hill Plant has received several Harbour and associates awards for efficiency of the workers. Ron Harbour is an efficiency expert and is considered the foremost leader in assessing vehicle manufacturing facilities worldwide. Harbour has been quoted as saying “Spring Hill has some of the most efficient and intelligent car builders in the business today”.
• The Spring Hill Facility is an industry leader in the production of light, polymer components for a wide array of automotive applications.
• Spring Hill Manufacturing produces a super efficient L-850 2.4 liter 4 cylinder engine. Spring Hill is the sole producer of many of the variants of this engine and ships these products to several different countries including multiple assembly plants in the United States of America.
• Spring Hill possesses a world class metal stamping capability with an updated “AA” Press and and two newly updated “B” Presses.
• Spring Hill has the lowest maintenance and janitorial cost on a square foot basis of any General Motors Facility.
• The utility costs for electric, gas and water is the most competitive at this plant in comparison to other facilities.
• The Spring Hill General Motors Plant is the only plant in the United States that has been accredited with the highest environmental permitting process by the Federal Government called a PAL Permit which allows Spring Hill to add capacity, products and process changes including alterations to the facilities without further governmental approvals. Saturn earned this distinction as a result of the outstanding environmental stewardship, giving Spring Hill great flexibility to act quickly to meet customer needs as the products and markets change.
The report listed below is a brief overview of the positive attributes that underscore why General Motors should keep the Spring Hill plant functioning in the New General Motors reorganization.
First and foremost, the Spring Hill production facility possesses the manufacturing processes and team member culture that GM is trying to install in every facility that they will continue operating under their new viability plan.
GM has renovated the Spring Hill plant over the last 18 months, spending over a billion dollars to install the latest state of the art flexible technology. This new technology includes the Bill of Process 4.0, giving Spring Hill the capability to build up to 3 different architectures and 6 different products all on the same line. This system is also capable of building any vehicle architecture produced. Due to the flexibility of the Spring Hill plant, retooling for the production of another car (from the currently produced Chevrolet Traverse) would be minimal.
The Spring Hill plant also has constructed a new super flexible paint shop that includes the latest environmental enhancements. This system is capable of processing any variety of product configurations that are required and is tooled up to meet the demands of the tremendously flexible body shop.
The flexibility to build any product that the market place demands will be key to the future of General Motors.
The President’s Automotive Task Force has demanded that GM streamline their number of plants and keep those facilities that are the most flexible and profitable. The Spring Hill facility meets these requirements.
• Spring Hill is one of the 3 newest GM Vehicle Assembly Factories in the United States
• Spring Hill has the newest and most flexible Body Shop and Paint Shop in North America.
• Spring Hill is the recipient of 5 straight "Chairman’s Honors Awards for Manufacturing Excellence" - the most consecutive yearly honors for any GM facility.
• Spring Hill has received 4 consecutive "People Make Quality Happen" awards for the high quality that this workforce has produced.
• Spring Hill recently launched the new Chevrolet Traverse Crossover Vehicle and scored the highest quality in the launch of a new product in General Motors history. This facility has a core competency of launching new products with great efficiency and quality.
• Spring Hill Manufacturing has the most progressive labor - management relationship of any GM Plant. There has never been a local strike at this location over labor issues pursuant to the local contract.
• The United Autoworkers Union in Spring Hill recently negotiated the most competitive, flexible, and progressive agreement in existence at any General Motors Plant delivering a tremendous cost savings to the corporation in labor costs. The contract was ratified by a 93% margin.
• The Chevrolet Traverse is the top Selling Crossover Vehicle in the World, beating out all of our competitors-foreign and domestic last month (May 2009).
Traverse 8204
Edge 7628
Pilot 6569
Highlander 5595
Acadia 4764
Journey 4436
Venza 3793
Enclave 3731
Murano 3567
Flex 3190
• Spring Hill Manufacturing has 2873 Hourly Employees, 324 management personnel and approximately 850 supplier employees that work at the Spring Hill Plant.
• The Spring Hill Plant is responsible for creating nearly 30,000 Jobs in middle Tennessee.
• Spring Hill Manufacturing is a very significant contributor to the tax base for both Maury County and the city of Spring Hill, Tennessee.
• The Spring Hill Plant has received several Harbour and associates awards for efficiency of the workers. Ron Harbour is an efficiency expert and is considered the foremost leader in assessing vehicle manufacturing facilities worldwide. Harbour has been quoted as saying “Spring Hill has some of the most efficient and intelligent car builders in the business today”.
• The Spring Hill Facility is an industry leader in the production of light, polymer components for a wide array of automotive applications.
• Spring Hill Manufacturing produces a super efficient L-850 2.4 liter 4 cylinder engine. Spring Hill is the sole producer of many of the variants of this engine and ships these products to several different countries including multiple assembly plants in the United States of America.
• Spring Hill possesses a world class metal stamping capability with an updated “AA” Press and and two newly updated “B” Presses.
• Spring Hill has the lowest maintenance and janitorial cost on a square foot basis of any General Motors Facility.
• The utility costs for electric, gas and water is the most competitive at this plant in comparison to other facilities.
• The Spring Hill General Motors Plant is the only plant in the United States that has been accredited with the highest environmental permitting process by the Federal Government called a PAL Permit which allows Spring Hill to add capacity, products and process changes including alterations to the facilities without further governmental approvals. Saturn earned this distinction as a result of the outstanding environmental stewardship, giving Spring Hill great flexibility to act quickly to meet customer needs as the products and markets change.
