Full-size GM pickup truck production will be idled once again next week due to yet another shortage of semiconductor chips.
2020 Silverado HD at Flint Assembly
According to Reuters, GM will temporarily shut down the Flint Assembly and Fort Wayne Assembly plants in the U.S. next week, along with the Silao Assembly plant in Mexico. The Fort Wayne and Silao plants produce the Chevy Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500, while Flint Assembly handles production of the heavy-duty variants of the two pickups.
“The global semiconductor shortage remains complex and very fluid,” GM said in a statement sent to Reuters on Tuesday. “The recent scheduling adjustments have been driven by temporary parts shortages caused by semiconductor supply constraints from international markets experiencing COVID-19-related restrictions.”
“This period will provide us with the opportunity to complete unfinished vehicles at the impacted assembly plants and ship those units to dealers,” the automaker added.
Production at the Fort Wayne and Silao facilities resumed on Monday following a brief shutdown related to the chip shortage. Flint Assembly, meanwhile, was operating on just one shift before returning to full capacity at the beginning of this week.
GM has experienced recurring production setbacks due to the chip shortage and has lost production of hundreds of thousands of vehicle units through the first seven months of the year. The automaker has prioritized its full-size truck and SUV models amid the chip shortage, idling its car and crossover plants in order to free up chips for its more popular and profitable large vehicle lines.
GM has also been producing partially completed vehicles without certain electronic components and storing them near its production plants to help mitigate the effects of the shortage. This allows the automaker to keep its plants up and running and enables it to quickly complete the vehicles once it receives the parts it needs.
“GM continues to leverage every available semiconductor to build and ship our most popular and in-demand products, including full-size trucks and SUVs for our customers,” the automaker said in a statement earlier this year. “We continue to work closely with our supply base to find solutions for our suppliers’ semiconductor requirements and to mitigate impacts on GM.”
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Mary Berra. CEO of GM. Quit worrying about building those stupid Electric vehicles. And make the chips you need in the good Ole U S A !!! Duh. Read my Lips. — WE WANT TRUCKS.
You deserve a spoon trophy for this comment, because you’re about as sharp as one.
Maybe would should be makeing them in the USA a thought !!!!!!!!!
Still can’t order the ‘Limited edtions’ 🙁 Someone knows please when it will be possible?
Strange chip shortage. With all that has happened in the past few years between Asia and the USA. Particularly with the CCP virus launch in retaliation for the trade wars, which scored China’s lead in commerce to Europe. China’s hatred of Trump and vice versa. Could the chip shortage to American automakers be a designed thing to gain ground and dominance for the Asian automakers? Asian car builders are not experiencing a chip shortage. ???
Have you noticed that during this planned and designed pandemic that China has gained huge ground as an economic and military powerhouse. Part of their master plan to be number one.
Perpetual pandemics and cyberwarfare are the new warfare tools for offensive strategy.
The toolbox has new tools in it.
When do we bomb China?
Well maybe if the American auto makers didn’t allow China to manufacture ALL the semiconductor chips for their vehicles and still had chip manufacturing here at home they wouldn’t be in this predicament. How much more per car would it be to purchase these chips from US manufacturers, $500, $1000? Just amortize it into the cost of the car. This is where putting all their eggs in one basket really bit them in the butt.
Junk and will be junk sitting