2013
The site has become by far the northeast’s biggest private sector employer, with 6,100 currently on its payroll. It also indirectly supports around 12,000 supplier jobs in the Sunderland area, Most components are sourced within Europe.
The complex, which has grown into a £3.5bn-plus investment, last year made a record 510,572 vehicles, and output for 2013 output looks set to top this.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0bdb80d6-4ad8-11e3-ac3d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2v1GgEbSk
2012
Nissan Sunderland breaks UK manufacturing record
Nissan produced 480,485 vehicles at its Sunderland plant in 2011, up 14% from 2010 and a new record for a single UK car plant. The growth was largely due to the success of the Qashqai models, of which around 300,000 were made. The plant also makes the Juke and Note models.
The Sunderland plant has two production lines, one of which makes the Qashqai on three shifts, running 24 hours a day, five days a week. There are now 5,462 people directly employed at the site.
Nissan is expecting further expansion at its Sunderland plant this year, with the opening of a facility making lithium-ion batteries for electric cars. It will start constructing Nissan's electric car, the Leaf, in 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16391397
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16408511
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So far, Nissan has invested over £2.1 billion in the Sunderland site, taking its production capacity to 500,000 vehicles per year.
http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/nissan/planning-for-quality-and-productivity/#axzz2v1GVkwRZ
2006
A number of other partmakers will produce inside the plant as Nissan pushes to boost Sunderland's production 25 percent to 400,000 units by adding three models by late 2006.
Positioned along the assembly line, Magna Kansei will supply cockpit modules and Calsonic Kansei will provide front-end modules.
"The factory-within-a factory is the ultimate lean production system conceivable," said Colin Dodge, managing director of Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK.
It provide the quality feedback of the system; you just shout to the supplier when you've got a problem. It does away with other reporting systems and analysis."
Lear is also believed to be close to a location decision for a new 100,000-square foot plant in Sunderland
"As part of the Nissan Integrated Management System we are actively talking to other Sunderland suppliers with a view to integrating production and to ensure we maintain the highest quality levels into the future," said Trevor Mann, Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK deputy managing director.
Dodge wants to see even today's minimal inventory reduced further and eliminate daily delivery truck movements around the plant. The suppliers form a 'fishbone-like' structure within the plant, with suppliers connecting directly to the main spine of the assembly line.
2001
Nissan's Sunderland car plant sets new European productivity standards in year 2000
Output increased from 271,157 in 1999 to 327,701 in 2000. The ratio of 101 cars per employee is approaching the European productivity record set at Sunderland in 1998.
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/nissans-sunderland-car-plant-sets-new-european-productivity-standards-154794285.html
1998
NISSAN'S SUNDERLAND car plant has reinforced its position as the most productive in Europe, producing three times as many vehicles per employee as Rover's Longbridge factory in Birmingham.
The manufacturing workforce of just under 2,800 at Sunderland produced 98 cars per employee last year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/sunderland-shows-you-can-with-a-nissan-1173040.html
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