A peek inside Navistar’s new San Antonio plant; it’s high-tech and already making trucks
Navistar employees assemble a truck frame as the company holds a ribbon cutting ceremony with local government officials at its new factory on the South Side. The million square-foot facility is expected to produce heavy duty commercial trucks at a rate of 110 vehicles rolling off the line per day. The plant is equipped to produce diesel engine and fully electric vehicles according to Navistar officials.
Throughout the production cycle, thousands of sensors placed throughout the factory fed data to one another — and their human overseers — to make sure the truck was built just right. “Everything today is about data,” said Mark Hernandez, head of manufacturing and logistics at Navistar. “Now, the actual computer can tell us, ‘Hey, you might want to go check this truck — because it’s coming through the station and there’s a 98 percent risk that there’s going to be a defect.’”
If Navistar starts producing autonomous or hydrogen-fueled trucks, Hernandez said, it will build them in San Antonio “because of the proximity to the advanced technology center, where they can do the testing.” “I’ve got 500 people who have never built a truck before,” said Rod Spencer, the plant’s director. “We’re taking our time ramping up.”
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