How Chrysler is preparing its Detroit Jeep plant to launch the new Grand Cherokee with high quality - and minimal lost production.
Dave Standen looks you straight in the eye, and clicks off his plants new model launch strategy, step by logical step. He speaks assertively, obviously full of confidence.
"One shift. That's how we're gonna start this launch," says Standen, operations manager at Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant (JNAP) in Detroit. "On just one shift, we learn the process elements. One shift gives us 16 hours at night to fix what's needed - to work on the equipment, to upgrade, change it, move it. By the time we get through those three weeks, we'll have …

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