GEORGETOWN, KY — At Toyota’s assembly plant here, engineers are constantly on the lookout for ways to build cars safely, quickly, within budget, on time, and with exceptional quality—all at very high volumes.
To help with those efforts, Toyota invested more than $80 million to build the Production Engineering and Manufacturing Center (PEMC) adjacent to the factory. The facility, which opened in October 2017, provides floor spaces for testing technologies and techniques for welding, plastics, painting, assembly and other processes and materials before they hit the assembly line. In addition, an on-site maker space known as the TILT Lab.