March 07, 2014
Karl Henkel

Ford Motor Co.’s 11 North American assembly plants are humming at 135 percent efficiency, which could grow as the automaker continues to fine-tune manufacturing processes.

Joe Hinrichs, Ford’s president of North and South America operations, says the company continues to look for ways to eke out extra production of cars, crossovers and trucks.

“We’re very comfortable with where we are in North America,” Hinrichs said in a telephone interview Friday before an event at Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake, where Ford is moving production of some medium-duty commercial trucks later this year. “We have some room to go up further, but at the same time we’re already getting a lot of leverage out of our plants.”

Source
The Detroit News