Chrysler Group’s Windsor, Ontario, assembly plant has become the first North American plant to achieve silver status under the automaker’s World Class Manufacturing system, Chrysler said today.
That means the plant, which will be overhauled this year to build the next generation of the Chrysler Town & Country minivan, is Chrysler’s best performing and most productive plant on the continent.
World Class Manufacturing, introduced by Fiat when it took control of Chrysler in 2009, aims to reduce waste and injuries while improving quality and efficiency. It uses 10 managerial and 10 technical pillars to measure each job and action in a plant, and rates the plant’s performance on a 100-point scale. Fiat and Chrysler plants worldwide are audited about twice a year.