The continuing chip scarcity has compelled Stellantis to halt Ram 1500 manufacturing this week at its Sterling Heights Meeting Plant in Michigan.
The Sterling Heights facility, which employs 7,068 and operates on three shifts, might be down for one week. The plant additionally had downtime in July.
Sterling Heights is only one of a number of Stellantis websites chopping manufacturing.
The Belvidere Meeting Plant in Illinois, which builds the Jeep Cherokee, and the Windsor Meeting Plant in Ontario, which handles the Pacifica and Voyager minivans, are down the weeks of Aug. 30 and Sept. 6.
The Brampton Meeting Plant in Ontario, which assembles the Dodge Challenger, Charger and Chrysler 300, is down this week.
“Stellantis continues to work carefully with our suppliers to mitigate the manufacturing impacts brought on by the varied provide chain points dealing with our business,” the corporate mentioned in a press release Monday.
The Windsor website was additionally down the weeks of Aug. 16 and 23 for its repeatedly scheduled summer time shutdown. Stellantis resumed common output in Windsor on July 5, after the plant sat idle practically on daily basis since March 29. The plant resumed operation the week of Could 31, however not at full capability.
Though Windsor resumed a two-shift operation on July 5, the automaker warned on the time that “scheduling remains to be launched on a week-to-week foundation.”
About 4,500 folks, the vast majority of them Unifor members, construct the Chrysler Pacifica, Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid and Chrysler Grand Caravan in Canada, in addition to the Chrysler Voyager for the U.S. market.
“This chip concern has been a catastrophe; very irritating,” Unifor Native 444 President Dave Cassidy mentioned in a publish on the chapter’s official Fb web page.
In response to the newest estimate from AutoForecast Options (AFS), the microchip scarcity has value automakers 2.1 million models of manufacturing in North America alone, by the week of Aug. 23.
AFS says automakers have seen practically seven million automobiles trimmed from world manufacturing plans as a result of scarcity and the agency now expects them to lose 8.1 million models of manufacturing earlier than the disaster ends.
Stellantis is simply the newest automaker to cancel manufacturing due to the chip scarcity.
Ford final week mentioned its Kansas Metropolis Meeting Plant in Missouri, in addition to the Oakville Meeting Plant in Ontario, might be down the week of Aug. 30. Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant in Michigan will function only one shift that week.
The F-150 is produced on the Kansas Metropolis and Dearborn factories. The Oakville plant produces the Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus crossovers.