Honda sources the vast majority of parts and materials needed for North American production in North America. “However, for global efficiency, a few critical parts continue to be supplied from Japan,” says Honda in a statement. Honda restarted production of component parts for North American plants Monday, April 4 at several Honda plants in Japan. However, those need their own parts and supplies. Therefore, Honda’s component production in Japan continues to run at approximately 50 percent of the original production plan.
This of course impacts North American production. Honda announced that North American plants will continue to run at half steam through May 6 2011. Production levels at these plants had been throttled down on March 30, and this is how it will stay for a while.
The following Honda cars are being built in North America:
Marysville, Ohio: Honda Accord, Honda Accord Coupe, Acura TL, Acura RDX
East Liberty, Ohio: Honda CR-V, Honda Element, Honda Accord Crosstour
Greensburg, Ind.: Honda Civic Sedan, Honda Civic GX natural gas
Lincoln, Alabama: Honda Odyssey, Honda Pilot, Honda Ridgeline
Alliston, Ontario: Honda Civic (Sedan, Coupe, Si) Acura MDX, Acura ZDX, Acura CSX (The CSX is sold only in Canada)
El Salto, Mexico: Honda CR-V
The following Honda cars are built in Japan for the North American market
Honda Fit, Insight, CR-Z, Civic Hybrid, Acura TSX and Acura RL.
Honda produces a small percentage of CR-Vs in Japan for the U.S. as well.
Bertel, has there been any rumours of new power plants being built to ease the strain? Granted, it won’t be overnight but at least it would show that something will be done. If not, survival of the companies themselves would dictate that they move the production out of there entirely. This can’t last more than a few months without serious damage happening.
They have all kinds of plans. Nothing will be overnight or in a few months. Our friends tell us that our beautiful city of lights is dark in the evening. my Japanese brother-in-law is an engineer in a company that makes fiber for transmission lines. They shut down the plant during the. day and work at night to get halfway stable power. Beginning of a story in Automotive News:
“Iwaki Diecast Co.’s 15 electric furnaces shut down as the March 11 earthquake knocked out power, turning 12 tons of aluminum bubbling at 670 degrees Celsius into solid lumps of unusable metal.
The supplier to Toyota Motor Corp. lost 440 pounds (200kg) of spilled aluminum and a magnesium die-cast plant washed away by the tsunami that followed in Yamamoto, Miyagi prefecture. Diesel generators were brought in to restore power and it took four days to melt the blocks so parts production could resume on March 22, Managing Director Hiroto Yokoyama said.
“We are almost back to where we were before the earthquake,” Yokoyama said in an interview at the factory. “But the big question is: What will happen this summer?”
How has the disaster impacted the Japanese people’s acceptance of nuclear power? And what reasonable alternatives, if any, exist?
Even if the Japanese know *exactly* what they want to do at this point, I would think it would take years to rebuild the infrastructure. If they aren’t sure how to proceed it will take even longer.
Love that picture: 58or 59 Chevy truck, a C100 Super Cub and a (I believe) CA92 Benly Touring 125 in the back. Got me inspired to go out to the shop and get working on the ’69 Super 90 to have it ready to run by the end of the month.
@ Syke ….Somebody correct if I’m wrong isn’t that truck a 60?
Pretty sure it’s a ’60 or ’61 Chevy Apache. Or might be a GMC….I think the side trim was the same.
Yep – ’60 or 61 Chevrolet, not GMC. I had a 60 Chevy like that in about 1972 or so. That’s a great photo, props for finding it.
Many companies seem to have forgotten the disciplines of risk management and alternate sourcing.
Speaking for my ex-employer in the Fortune 100 with factories all over the globe, all I can say is they certainly talked a good game about alternate sources and risk management. but when push came to shove, for instance, spending half a million or more to qualify an alternate source for a small but critical item, that was the end of it. there simply were not enough resources to address the ‘what-ifs.’ and we went through disaster scenarios, but the reality is, if your plant is surrounded by water and half your employees are dead, what are you going to do? are critical personnel really going to answer their mobile in the midst of a genuine disaster?
on a more selfish note, what will the impact be on these great accord lease deals that i think expire in early may?