The Stellantis Vigo plant will once again fill its production lines from Monday to Sunday. The factory management informed the personnel that the fourth shift in the second system, which is the assembly of light commercial vehicles (pickup trucks), will continue. It will be from September 16, when it will include around 700 people on its weekend team. In this way, it fully maintains an operating rate that is severely affected by disruptions in the supply chain, mainly due to the lack of semiconductor (chip) stock.
Last week, the senior roster of what is known in the group as SPW or the same, star generation system (English abbreviation Stellantis Production Path), reaching a climax two-day visit to the factory vigo to learn the best practices of the centre, and to hold a study meeting with the management team. At the head of the delegation was the world director of SPW. Brazilian Juliana Coelho (part of the Industrial Management of the Paris-based multinational auto company), accompanied by the regional leaders of SPW. Coelho and his team oversaw the entire assembly process of Vigo’s models.
The Balaídos factory is always a exemplary and flexibility in production processescontributes to the applications that the group (first PSA and later Stellantis) expands to the rest of the facilities. Even the cluster culture it now imposes started from the Vigo experience.