NUMMI: The GM-Toyota Joint Venture That Could Have Saved the U.S. Auto Industry
Summary
This American Life tells the story of NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.), a 1984 joint venture between General Motors and Toyota in Fremont, California. Toyota shared its production system secrets with GM, demonstrating how to build higher quality cars at lower cost. Despite this knowledge transfer, GM failed to implement the lessons, eventually went bankrupt, and NUMMI was closed in 2010, leaving thousands unemployed. The piece, reported by NPR's Frank Langfitt, explores why GM couldn't adopt Toyota's successful methods and how this plant might have saved the U.S. auto industry.
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· 3 pulledToyota showed GM the secrets of its production system: How it made cars of much higher quality and much lower cost than GM achieved.
GM went bankrupt. And in 2010 NUMMI was closed, sending thousands of car workers looking for jobs.
A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry.
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