Production standstill perfect storms

[13MikeH]

I frequent bronco6g.com as well to see how the other half of the bronco world lives and perhaps some day upgrade one of our cars to a bronco to go along with the sport...saw this video and it's eye opening on why stuff is so screwed right now. It isn't Ford ...spoiler alert... It's a 20 minute video and I agree with their OP more need to see this and understand what is, and what's coming

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[SM05]

Saw that one a couple of weeks back. Yeah, it's eye opener.

 

[Dan]

I frequent bronco6g.com as well to see how the other half of the bronco world lives and perhaps some day upgrade one of our cars to a bronco to go along with the sport...saw this video and it's eye opening on why stuff is so screwed right now. It isn't Ford ...spoiler alert... It's a 20 minute video and I agree with their OP more need to see this and understand what is, and what's coming
Supply chain insanity

These supply chain issues affect where I work as well, I work for a glass company and all of our suppliers have had people leave and go on unemployment because they made more on it then working. So, they started hiring people who don’t know what they are doing. We have gotten a huge increase from all our manufacturers in scratched glass, chipped, wrong thickness, or broken corners on new windows, you name it! It’s been a disaster and it takes weeks to get items that it used to take a week or less to get because the quality is so bad and it is sent back by us or the own company won’t let it fly. I am totally just fine with the delays from Ford, they are doing what they can

 

[13MikeH]

These supply chain issues affect where I work as well...

As a consumer it's frustrating but it's the messed up political football. Instead of appeasing "votes" put people back to work. Instead of handouts for sitting on your ass making money...pay bonuses for GOING to work.

 

[69cuda340s]

Global supply chain out of whack. Then fed gov pays ppl more to stay home then work so that adds lot of problems to what was already an out of whack economy. Now companies have to adapt adjust recover and it will take long time...

 

[13MikeH]

Adding cement to the wait...
From a conductor plant in NY...three months to create chips...it's gonna be a while...grab a Snickers. Time Magazine article
“The only operators are the ones in the ceiling,” says Chris Belfi, wrapped up in a Tyvek bunny suit, tinted yellow under the photo-safe lights. The robots rush by on overhead tracks, blinking and whirring. Every few seconds, one pauses above a giant machine. Out of its laundry-basket-size belly, a plastic box drops on thin wires, like Tom Cruise in a catsuit. It holds precious cargo: up to 25 shiny silicon wafers, each the size of a 12-in. pizza. The process of transforming them into tiny computer brains—call them microchips, semiconductors or just chips—takes nearly three months. “I use an analogy like baking a cake,” says Belfi, an automation engineer at chipmaker GlobalFoundries. “The only difference is our cake is about 66 layers.”

 

[Flash]

Arizona decided to opt out of the extra Federal unemployment insurance so the last check the freeloaders will get is July 10. After that they're going to be looking for jobs.

The couple across the street from me haven't worked since this whole thing started.

 

[Huntyeraws]

Adding cement to the wait...
From a conductor plant in NY...three months to create chips...it's gonna be a while...grab a Snickers. Time Magazine article
It holds precious cargo: up to 25 shiny silicon wafers, each the size of a 12-in. pizza. The process of transforming them into tiny computer brains—call them microchips, semiconductors or just chips—takes nearly three months. “I use an analogy like baking a cake,” says Belfi, an automation engineer at chipmaker GlobalFoundries. “The only difference is our cake is about 66 layers.”

Yep, I posted something similar on this forum the other day. I used to work in MEMS nanotechnology R&D with my employer on a previous project. It takes several weeks to a few months to build up all of the layers/circuitry on a single wafer with many chips on it...and that is without any catastrophes. And then hundreds if not thousands of wafers depending on how many pieces that one needs. All of the chips have to be individually tested - electrically and pass visual inspection for defects and then shipped off to the integrator where the get picked, placed, wire bonded/assembled into a control module or whatever subcomponent - further QA testing, packed and shipped off to the manufacturer to be put into whatever product they are making. It is a long process. JIT manufacturing has fallen apart due to COVID.

A little nostalgia - This is a pic of me getting myself ready to go into a manufacturing cleanroom in my "bunny suit" several years back. Special filtered lights are used to prevent UV light from reacting/damaging the processing chemistry/components. At least it was comfortable when I had to go in on hot days as cleanrooms are highly temperature and humidity controlled (cool and dry) clean environments.

 

[o0260o]

Arizona decided to opt out of the extra Federal unemployment insurance so the last check the freeloaders will get is July 10. After that they're going to be looking for jobs.

The couple across the street from me haven't worked since this whole thing started.

I took a year off work and it was a blast. I was better off mentally and physically. I guess some people like working. Maybe they don't have interests or hobbies. There is a million of other things I'd rather be doing than being dirty and sweaty at the job.

 

[rdc17]

Months into the new year we started dealing with supply chain issues at work. The second I saw the news reports about it spilling over into the auto world I knew it was time to start shopping for a BS or wait another year or so to get one.

 

[Huntyeraws]

Months into the new year we started dealing with supply chain issues at work. The second I saw the news reports about it spilling over into the auto world I knew it was time to start shopping for a BS or wait another year or so to get one.

That is why I had ordered my BS in mid February. I figured that there would be a slight delay....not half a year or more.

 

[13MikeH]

Guarantee Ford/automakers had no idea it would end THIS bad...yet here we are.

 

[Huntyeraws]

UPDATE 10 - Notice Regarding the Semiconductor Manufacturing Factory (Naka Factory) Fire: Production Capacity Recovery Status



June 25, 2021
TOKYO, Japan, 2021 ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced an update regarding production capacity recovery following the occurrence of a fire on March 19, 2021 at part of the processes in the N3 Building (300mm line) of Naka Factory.

The start-up of all necessary manufacturing equipment to recover pre-fire production capacity of the N3 Building, which resumed operation on April 17, has been completed. As a result, the production level of the N3 Building has returned to 100% of the pre-fire level as of the evening of June 24. In addition, alternative production is contributing to Renesas’ manufacturing as planned.

The shipment level of the products manufactured in the N3 Building is expected to return to pre-fire level around the third week of July. However, this shipment level refers to that of the N3 Building as a whole. Therefore, the recovery timing of the shipment level may vary from product to product.

Renesas will continue to strive for the safety of the community and, with the support of the fire department and the police as well as the relevant authorities, we will work to prevent a reoccurrence.

 

[Huntyeraws]

More delays just announced.

KEY POINTS
Ford is significantly cutting its North American vehicle production in July due to an ongoing shortage of semiconductor chips impacting the global automotive industry.

The automaker plans to idle or reduce production at eight plants, including six in the U.S., for varying periods of time into early August due to the problem.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/30/chip-shortage-causes-ford-to-cut-vehicle-production-at-several-plants.html

Ford Bronco Sport SUV and upcoming Ford Maverick small pickup: The Hermosillo Assembly Plant in Mexico will run one of two shifts the weeks of July 12 and July 19.

I am expecting at least another two week delay notification any time. <SIGH>

 

[Excape]

More delays just announced.

KEY POINTS
Ford is significantly cutting its North American vehicle production in July due to an ongoing shortage of semiconductor chips impacting the global automotive industry.

The automaker plans to idle or reduce production at eight plants, including six in the U.S., for varying periods of time into early August due to the problem.

Ford Bronco Sport SUV and upcoming Ford Maverick small pickup: The Hermosillo Assembly Plant in Mexico will run one of two shifts the weeks of July 12 and July 19.

I am expecting at least another two week delay notification any time. <SIGH>

I'm wondering what Ford is doing with the continued product roll-outs...
They had the big Bronco supplier issues, then still rolled the Bronco Sport out mid-pandemic with the supply issues already known, then even after that catastrophe, they roll out the Maverick. Those poor suckers (reservation/orderers) probably don't know what they're in for!

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