MARYSVILLE — One of the Miami Valley’s largest employers is making radical changes to the way to do business.
News Center 7′s Mike Campbell got an exclusive look at how Honda is working to meet the future.
There are 15,000 Honda workers in facilities across Ohio.
That doesn’t count anyone who works at a Honda dealership, it’s just people working to build new vehicles.
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Honda plans to start making battery electric vehicles (BEVs) late this year in Marysville.
Honda showed News Center 7 how they’ve continued to make gas and hybrid vehicles while upgrading the entire plant.
“We’re able to be flexible between varying volumes of that hybrid product to full electric vehicles, without any loss which is nice,” Tim Leopold, BEV project lead said.
That flexibility means no plant shutdowns, no worker furloughs, no matter what vehicle is hot on the market at a certain time.
Workers, and robots, at the Honda Anna Engine Plant in Shelby County are now making more than engines.
They installed six different, 60,000-ton casting machines to make battery cell cases.
They will be produced there, then filled with batteries and attached to the new line of EV model vehicles.
Tim Stroh is a project manager at the Anna plant.
He said the engineering work to make the cell cases is amazing.
He said workers’ reactions to new product fields, while safeguarding their future, is also exciting.
“There’s a lot of things you can do in these walls and keep your knowledge and those people and their knowledge are key to this product,” Stroh said.
The battery modules to go into those cell casings will be made at the under-construction Jeffersonville facility.
It’s another Honda plant expected to be filled with hundreds of Miami Valley workers.
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