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The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday June 11, 2003 - FORD 9 Ford Motor Company fj)0 4 - 2 0 0 4 A C O M M E M O R A T IV E F E A T U R E B Y T H EO A K V IL L EH E A V L R S E C T IO N B Quick facts about Ford Ford's Ontario Truck Plant (OTP) Ford's Ontario Truck Plant (OTP) opened in 1965 and has pro duced F-Series pickup trucks ever since. Currently, OTP pro duces F-150, SVT Lightning, F-150 bi-fuel and F-150 natural gas pickups. The vehicles are sold in Canada and exported to the United States, plus various countries in Europe and the Middle East. OTP employs 1,400 men and women, the majority of whom are hourly employees who work on vehicle assembly. OTP sits on 38 hectares (94 acres) and the buildings them selves total 271,000 m2 (3.0 million ft2). OTP houses a body shop, paint facility and an assembly line. The assembly line totals 16 km (10 miles) and includes 218 robots. OTP operates on one shift of 8,9, or 10 hours a day, Monday to Friday. J Last year, OTP produced more than 107,000 vehicles, and it has produced over 4 million since it opened in 1965. OTP, like all Ford facilities, is certified to the ISO 9001 stan dard for quality and ISO 14001 for environmental efficiency. J OTP is one of four plants to produce Ford F-150 in North America. The others are Kansas City (Missouri), Norfolk (Virginia) and Cuautitlan (Mexico). Cleaner. Safer. Sooner. Ford Motor Company is dedicated to bringing environmentally responsible technologies to mass-market vehicles as soon as pos sible. It is also exploring innovative technologies with the potential to virtually eliminate vehicle emissions. Fuel cells, which use no gasoline and produce no harmful emis sions, are but one of the new technologies changing the essential nature of the automobile. Another, the Ford Escape Hybrid SUV, powered by a combination of a 65 Kw electric motor and fourcylinder gasoline engine, debuts next year. Increasingly sophisticated technologies should also enhance Ford's customers' safety and well-being. Ford has a history of break throughs, including the first factory-installed safety belt in 1955, and BeltMinder^ in 1999, with chimes and lights that encourage drivers to buckle up. Volvo invented the three-point belt in 1959 and is now working on even more sophisticated belt systems. Ford currently offers groundbreaking technology, including the Personal Safety SystemTM that analyzes a crash in real time, changing the air bag deployment based on the driver's seat posi tion, among other factors. Ford is now extending this system to other occupants. The company also introduced the first side-air curtain, Safety Canopy , to help protect occupants in a rollover incident. Looking forward, developing technologies such as pre-crash sens ing - predicting a crash - provides avoidance opportunities or even more enhanced protection if a crash occurs. The systems involve pedestrian safety, as well as quicker emergency response at an accident scene. Engineering expertise ai Ford's research facilities will progress even further - and at a faster pace during its second century of innovation. Ford's Ontario Truck Plant (OTP) opened in 1965 and has produced F-Series pickup trucks ever since. In this picture, circa 1984, O. T.P. workers celebrate the 2,500, OOOth pickup truck to roll o f the assembly line. OAP operates on 2 shifts, each of which runs 8, 9 or 10 hours a day. J OAP produced its 2 millionth Ford Windstar on December 6, 2001. The plant employs over 3,300 people, the majority of whom are hourly employees who work on vehicle assembly. J OAP's first vehicles were the Ford Meteor and Mercury Monarch cars. Since then, it has produced such nameplates as Torino, Falcon, Maverick, Econoline, Escort, Crown Victoria, Tempo, Topaz and, from 1994 to 2003, Ford Windstar. Quick Facts about the Oakville A ssem bly Plant In 2002, OAP produced 211,000 vehicles to add to its historical produc tion of over eight million vehicles since it opened in 1953. OAP sits on 195 hectares (487 acres) and the buildings themselves total 347,000 m2 (3.8 million ft2). OAP houses a body shop, paint facility and an assembly line. The assembly line totals 45 km (28 miles) and includes 440 robots. The assembly line produces 65 units per hour. It takes the average vehicle 25 hours to go through the entire assembly process. Congratulations to Ford Oakville on 50 Years of Success and Quality Service We look forward to the next 50 Your friends at Intier Automotive Inc. A u to m o tiv e