East Liberty Auto Plant is a Honda factory in East Liberty, Ohio, United States. The assembly plant opened in 1989. East Liberty is about 45 minutes northwest of Columbus, Ohio.
It was the first plant in North America to implement Honda's 'New Manufacturing System' in 2000. Today, the plant produces the Honda CR-V and Acura RDX. The East Liberty Auto Plant was the first plant on the continent to employ low-emission, water-borne paint and the first to use laser welding in mass production.
- Location: East Liberty, Ohio
- Started production: December 1989
- Plant size: 1.9 million square feet
- Capital investment: US$1.1 billion
- Associates: 2,500
- Produces:
- Honda CR-V (from Sep 2006)
- Acura RDX (from Mar 2012)
- Acura MDX (from May 2017)
- Annual production capacity: 240,000 cars and light trucks
- Operations:
- Stamping
- Welding
- Painting
- Testing
- Plastics injection molding
- Assembly and sub-assembly
- Quality assurance
- Shipping & export
- Additional parts produced:
- Stamped parts exported to Honda of Canada Mfg. for Civic production
The East Liberty plant became the lead plant in global production of the CR-V in 2016. Engineers working in the plant are responsible for providing the first set of hard-tooled parts and complete body unit builds for nine other CR-V plants around the world to follow and replicate. The team have to perfect the parts and manufacturing processes. The plant's 200,000-square-foot welding shop was expanded and underwent a makeover with 200 new robots. Poor planning and implementation of the makeover caused the plant to miss their production targets, falling almost 5,000 units behind at the end of 2017. The plant began to produce the 2017 CR-V in November 2016. The East Liberty plant exports vehicles to many countries including: Saudi Arabia, Korea and Russia.
Video East Liberty Auto Plant
See also
- Marysville Auto Plant
- Japanese community of Columbus, Ohio
Maps East Liberty Auto Plant
References
External links
- Honda of Ohio
Source of article : Wikipedia
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