Training honour for Nissan Sunderland
By TJ (14-06-2007)
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Nissan’s Sunderland Plant has been chosen by its parent company in Japan to be one of only two global training centres for manufacturing excellence. Production supervisors from Nissan facilities across Europe, India, The Middle East and South Africa will come to Sunderland to learn how to become ‘master trainers’ in all aspects of lean car production. They will then return to their own countries and train their workforce up to a global standard skill level. In this way the centre will standardise training and education across the globe, ensure best practice is shared amongst all Nissan plants, and raise standards in basic and advanced manufacturing skills.
Part of the Sunderland Plant will be converted to house the centre. Once open, it will complement Nissan’s only other global training centre in Oppama, Japan, which carries out a similar role for Asia, Oceania and the Americas.
The centre will feature a replica production line dedicated to each area of manufacturing, along with a suite of training rooms. It will be staffed by Sunderland’s Training Department together with hand-picked manufacturing supervisors, who recently spent seven weeks in Japan preparing for their new role.
The first group of trainees will arrive in Sunderland in the autumn, when managers and supervisors from Nissan’s plant in St Petersburg, Russia (due to commence production in 2009) will be taught how to train their new workforce.
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