Bridgestone builds radial tire plant in Thailand. (Acquisitions, Expansions).Bridgestone, Tokyo, Japan, the parent company of Bridgestone/Firestone Americas Holding, Nashville, TN, will build a plant in Chonburi, Thailand to produce radial tires for trucks and buses. This plant will be Bridgestone's third plant in Thailand and will begin operation in the second half of 2004. The Thai plant will have a production capacity of 2,500 tires a day and will export tires to the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government, marketing and business purposes. It is particularly common amongst North American based companies, who often divide their international operations into the , as well as to other Southeast Asian nations Noun 1. Asian nation - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent Asian country country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" . Bridgestone will invest approximately $136 million in the plant, which will operate as Bridgestone Tire Manufacturing (Thailand), Ltd. Bridgestone is testing a fully-automated tire production system. This system is said to be the first to automate the entire manufacturing sequence from the processing of materials to the final inspection of finished tires. Bridgestone will refine the system under mass production conditions at a pilot installation in Japan and then deploy the technology to new and existing Bridgestone/Firestone plants worldwide. The production system is called BIRD, which stands for Bridgestone Innovative Rational Development. It centers on three key elements. First, the system employ's Bridgestone's ATMSS automated tire manufacturing synchronized syn·chro·nize v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v.intr. 1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous. 2. To operate in unison. v.tr. 1. system technology for automating and integrating the processes from material processing to vulcanization vulcanization (vŭl'kənəzā`shən), treatment of rubber to give it certain qualities, e.g., strength, elasticity, and resistance to solvents, and to render it impervious to moderate heat and cold. . Secondly, the system uses AIMS automated inspection modular system technology for inspecting tires automatically. The third element is Bridgestone's flow oriented approach (FOA FOA Funding Opportunity Announcement (NIH) FOA First of All FOA Friends of Animals FOA Futures and Options Association FOA Fiber Optic Association FOA Form of Authorization FOA Försvarets Forskningsanstalt ), which employs autonomous information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. to manage the system. |
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