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Both Lear Corp. and Hyundai Motor Manufacturing have found a manufacturing home in Montgomery, AL. Lear operates a plant that makes and delivers seats to the nearby Hyundai plant for just-in-time installation in Sonata sedans and Sante Fe SUVs. About two hours before the seats need to be installed, Lear receives a live broadcast of the exact production sequence and seat model requirements from Hyundai.
The Lear plant—which won the ASSEMBLY Plant of the Year award in 2006—builds about 1,000 seat sets per day or 73 sets per hour in 56 distinct combinations of colors and options. Seats are assembled on pallets with fixtures that rotate and tilt to maximize worker accessibility.