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Our Plant and
Products
Rawsonville Plant
The
Rawsonville Visteon Plant is in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
It opened in 1956 with
Ford workers from other plants such as Milford, Manchester and
the Rouge Plant. The plant is 1.5
million square feet today after expansions completed in the 60's
and 70's.
Employment is 2,350 UAW members and 209 salaried. Over the
years it has been in many divisions including General Products,
General Parts, Electrical and Fuel Handling and Powertrain
Control Systems. Now it is part of the Energy Transformation
Systems Division.
Our
customers are: Ford Motor Company Body & Assembly Plants:
Atlanta, Chicago, Cuautitlan, Dearborn, Edison,
Hermosillo, Kansas City, Kentucky Truck, Lorain, Louisville,
Michigan Truck, Norfolk, Oakville, St. Louis, Twin
Cities, Wayne, Wixom. Engine Plants: Chihuahua,
Cleveland, Romeo, Windsor, Essex, Dearborn, Lima. Ford Europe, Bosch, Mazda, Valeo and Trico.
We
have achieved the QS9000 &
ISO14000
Certifications and have many reasons to be proud of our people
and our products.
Our
Products
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plant has the largest Die Cast facility in the Southeast
Michigan area. This
facility consists of hot metal forming dies that produce our
throttle body, front & rear alternator and wiper housings. |
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| Stamping
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Stamping area has presses that range from 70 to 250 tons that
produce various components for our alternator and air/fuel
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| Screw
Machining
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Screw Machining area uses raw rolled steel which is formed into
various sizes of shafts and small parts to be used on our
Air/fuel products. |
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| Shaft
Machining
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in our Screw Machining area are further processed here.
Additional features such as knurls, slots and threads are
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| Air/Fuel
Charging
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externally supplied products are assembled creating our Throttle
Body, Upper & Lower Intake Manifold, Spacer, Injector and
Fuel Rail products |
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Injectors
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The D4
Injector is produced on an automated assembly line within a “clean
room environment” which ensures product consistency.
Component parts are produced with “state of the art”
machining and grinding equipment.
We currently have an annual production of six million
injectors and will increase production to ten million injectors
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| Alternators
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| Alternator assembly areas
manufacture 3rd, 4th and 6th generation Alternators. There are nine separate sub-assembly areas that machine
housings and shafts, assemble and wind rotors and
stators. These lines then feed their products to the final assembly
line which produces a finished
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| Fuel Pumps
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The Rawsonville Plant has been
manufacturing Fuel Pumps since 1985 and currently
produces over four million units per year.
We have both a high volume fully automated
process and a lean manufacturing cell for small volume
applications.
The armatures for the pumps are made in house and all
vehicles are built in a “clean room environment“.
Our Fuel Pumps are used on all types of Ford, Jaguar and
Aston Martin vehicles. Fuel
flow ranges from 80-200 liters per hour.
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Wiper
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Wiper Motors have been assembled at the
Rawsonville Plant since 1968.
Our newest model, the F-Wiper, is a 6th
generation motor that is more efficient, powerful, quiet and
smaller than its predecessors.
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Material
excerpted from the brochure The Rawsonville Pride
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