Honda Marysville Auto Plant (MAP) is a Honda manufacturing facility located approximately six miles northwest of Marysville, Ohio and is 42 miles northwest of Columbus, Ohio. It is one of the most integrated and flexible auto plants in North America. Operations include stamping, plastics injection molding, welding, painting, sub-assembly and assembly. The assembly plant opened in 1982.
- Location: 24000 Honda Pkwy Marysville, Ohio
- Started Production: November 1982
- Plant Size: 3.6 million square feet
- Capital Investment: US$4 billion
- Employees: 4,200
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Models
- Current
- Honda Accord sedan, hybrid (1982-present)
- Acura ILX (2015-present)
- Acura TLX (2014-present)
- Discontinued
- Acura RDX (2006-2012; moved to East Liberty)
- Honda Gold Wing motorcycles 1979-2009
- Acura TL (1998-2014)
- Honda Accord Coupe (discontinued 2017)
Maps Marysville Auto Plant
Overhaul
Marysville plant is equivalent to 39 Wal-Mart stores under one roof. Honda overhauled the Marysville plant over several years one department after another without losing a day of production. During overhaul, Honda replaced old hydraulic welding systems designed for specific models with programmable electronic welding robots that can weld different vehicle body types for better flexibility and higher productivity. Work started in 2002 in advance of the launch of the 2003 Accord. In 2004, Honda commenced work on a 234,000-square-foot extension of the plant for a new paint facility of US$123 m. The new facility uses high-efficiency ovens, air recycling systems, and more efficient variable drive motors that would save 34 percent energy. The company also built a 20-million-gallon pond behind the plant to recycle rainwater for helping to cool the plant. By recycling runoff from parking lots and roofs, the 7-acre pond system would significantly reduce the use of groundwater and save energy cost. The new fully automated paint shop was opened in January 2006. It uses a new waterborne coating system, with 84 Motoman robots, that reduces emissions of hazardous substances by 41 percent.
Update
Honda invested US$220 millions in the Marysville plant, including an all-new welding shop with 342 new robots for US$165 million to prepare for the new Inner Frame construction technique for the 2018 Accord. The new high-volume laser brazing system joins the roof to the body side panels precisely that it eliminates the black plastic garnish many sedans use to cover the rain channels. Honda also expanded rear door-line production capability to accommodate dropping the coupe from the line-up for model year 2018; brought in-house the sub-assembly of front-end modules of the Accord and added a new sub-assembly for the Intelligent Power Unit, which consists of the battery pack and its control systems, for the 2018 Accord Hybrid.
See also
- East Liberty Auto Plant
- Marysville Motorcycle Plant
- Japanese community of Columbus, Ohio
References
External links
- Honda of Ohio
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