Nissan's Smyrna plant in Tennessee, which celebrates its 41st anniversary this year, is preparing for a shift towards electric vehicle production. The plant, where every 30 seconds a Nissan or Infiniti vehicle rolls off the line, has invested over $8 billion in upgrades since 1983 to maintain its competitiveness. To keep pace with the EV revolution, Nissan is incorporating artificial intelligence, automation, and ergonomic changes to improve efficiency and quality.
Twenty-five years after Nissan introduced its first vehicle to the United States in 1958, the Japanese auto maker opened its first plant south of the border in 1983. After 41 years of operation, the 15 millionth car ceremoniously rolled off a line at that plant in Smyrna, Tenn., earlier this year. Today, a Nissan or Infiniti vehicle is produced roughly every 30 seconds at Nissan ’s largest plant in North America, just outside Nashville.
If you drive a Rogue, Pathfinder, Murano or Infiniti QX60 in Canada, chances are it came from this plant. Even Nissan’s first electric vehicle, the Leaf, is built in Smyrna. But to stay competitive, Nissan says it has strived continuously to improve quality and efficiency, investing more than $8-billion in the plant since 1983. Now, as the plant gears up for more EV production by the end of the decade, Nissan says it’s incorporating artificial intelligence and more automation to improve quality and reduce production time. It’s also changing work processes to lower employee strain when performing ergonomically challenging jobs. Some of the manufacturing efficiencies will come from the EVs themselves, which have fewer parts than conventional cars. “Reduced parts diversity is key to the way that we are going to move forward,” said David Johnson, the regional senior vice-president of manufacturing, supply chain management and purchasing for Nissan Americas. “Right now, it takes anywhere from 1,800 to 2,000 assembled parts to make a car inside of our plants. The total car has about 30,000 parts individually. The less parts we have to assemble, the more common those parts are, and the more we automate, the less time it takes , which leads to tremendous efficiency.” With fewer moving parts and no need for an engine, exhaust system or alternators in an EV, the assembly process will be shortened and simplifie
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