Nissan integrates for improved efficiencies

Nissan North America (NASDAQ: NSANY) is using better automation to streamline its automotive production. A move that may help the company's bottom line.

In pursuit of absolute manufacturing floor intelligence, Nissan North America is utilizing progressive automation technology to track and control the manufacture of full size vehicles in its new plant in Canton Mississippi. Motion System Design has reported that Nissan is utilizing readily available components from EMC (NYSE: EMC), Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and GE Fanuc (NYSE: GE) to integrate Nissan's Canton operations starting from parts ordering and going right on through final assembly. GE Fanuc Cimplicity software is at the heart of Nissan's Production Management Control System (PMCS). GE Fanuc is a unit of GE Infrastructure.

The PMCS interchanges data with over 1 million individual data points within the manufacturing stream. Oversight is accomplished with a minimum of engineering staff by utilizing carefully planned and heavily integrated software over a span of more than 300 plant floor operating stations. Additionally, the system does double duty by keeping constant watch over energy consumption parameters and by monitoring waste destruction and removal. In all, the high tech system oversees the manufacture of 400,000 vehicles at peak production capacity within Nissan's Canton facility.

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