The typical load center is a plain metal box that most people never think about unless their television or computer suddenly stops working. Hundreds of them are assembled every day at Schneider Electric/Square D Lexington, the recipient of the 2007 Assembly Plant of the Year award presented by ASSEMBLY magazine.
During the 1950s, there was a boom in new assembly plant construction in the United States. Today, many of those plants are still going strong. In fact, several of them were finalists for the 2007 Assembly Plant of the Year award.
Mitsubishi Motors North America (Cypress, CA) operates an assembly and stamping plant in Normal, IL, which operates two 8-hour shifts a day, 5 days a week, using more than 850 robots to build nearly 180,000 vehicles per year.
Textron Inc. manufactures a wide range of products, including everything from airplanes to boats to lawnmowers. Subsidiaries include Cessna Aircraft Co. and golf cart manufacturer E-Z GO.
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