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Nissan Mexicana Components Produced Its 6,000,000th Engine


February 2007
 Filed under: NISSAN CORPORATE Car News | NISSAN CORPORATE Headlines

- The MR18 engine will be incorporated into a 2007 Nissan Versa that will be exported to the United States -

AGUASCALIENTES, Aguascalientes (Feb. 14, 2007) - The Nissan Mexicana Components plant in Aguascalientes celebrated the production of its engine number 6,000,000. It was a 1.8 liter, four-cylinder, 125 horsepower MR18, coupled to an automatic transmission and integrated into a 2007 Nissan Versa sedan 2007 that will be exported to the United States.

The Aguascalientes plant, which began operations in 1982 solely as Components, will celebrate its silver anniversary in November 2007. During these 24 years it has received many awards, both national and international, that acknowledge its high productivity rate and also the high level of quality with which their assemblies and machined parts are manufactured.
At present the Components plant has a workforce of over 2,000 people (added to the 4,000 in the neighboring Vehicles Plant) and produces the following five engine models: a) the 1.6L GA for the Tsuru; b) the 2.4L KA for the D21 pick up; c) the 1.8L MR for the Tiida/Versa; d) the 2.0L MR for the Sentra and e) the 2.5L QR for the Sentra SE-R. All of them have very competitive performance and quality standards, which allow them to offer the lowest gas emission and noise levels. This is a sign of Nissan’s commitment to caring for the environment and its customers’ satisfaction.

For optimum operation, the Components plant is divided into 4 areas: 1) gray iron foundry, with a capacity of 8 tons a day; 2) aluminum foundry with a capacity of 66 tons a day; 3) machining, which as well as supplying parts locally, also exports to subsidiaries in the United States and Japan; and 4) engine assembly, which has two production lines.

At the present time, the daily production turns out 1,738 units, which means that 67 engines come off the line every hour - one every 53 seconds.

The ceremony presided over by Mr. Armando Ávila, Nissan Mexicana Vice President of Manufacturing, and by Mr. Francisco Carbajal, Director of the Components Plant, was attended by Nissan Mexicana executives and the local press.

“These excellent production results and the success of the engines we produce in Aguascalientes, the land of good people, are just a reflection of the excellent quality of our personnel, not just professionally speaking but as people with values who seek continuous improvement day by day”, Mr. Carbajal commented.

Source: Nissan

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