This year, ASSEMBLY magazine is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Assembly Plant of the Year award. Two facilities that received the honor in the past have successfully adopted to the electric vehicle era by investing in state-of-the-art tools and technology: Kenworth Truck Co., Renton, WA (2004 winner) and Ford Motor Co., Sterling Heights, MI (2018 winner).
Kenworth, a division of PACCAR Inc., continuously applies the latest production technology to improve the way it assembles custom-engineered, build-to-order Class 7 and Class 8 trucks. The company has developed and implemented a variety of high-tech tools and systems on the plant floor to assemble products better, faster and more efficiently than its competitors.