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Ford's Hybrid Transmission Plant Uses Flexibility to Beat Outsourcing

DailyTech -- DailyTech had the privilege of touring Ford Motor Comp.'s new hybrid transmission flex-line assembly plant in Sterling Heights, MI last Thursday. Located on Van Dyke Rd., roughly 20 min. northeast of the city of Detroit, the Van Dyke Transmission plant has been opened since 1968.

Long in the tooth, some feared the long-standing facility could become the latest casualty of a fading American manufacturing empire. But Ford was determined not to let that happen.

The "secret sauce" that helps keep costs so low at the transmission plant is its flexible design. Capable of producing either the 6F - a conventional 6-speed automatic - or the HF35 - a hybrid transmission, the plant can compensate for lulls in hybrid demand by producing conventional transmissions.

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jtfftj Champion Author New Hampshire Posts:2,168 Points:1,245,395 Joined:Sep 2005	Message Posted: Aug 7, 2012 9:37:24 PM Ignore jtfftj Report Abuse Old news. Read this yesterday.
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