| The third largest Japanese car manufacture recently | | | | high the quality of the end product will be at Nissan's |
| announced that its Global Production Engineering | | | | assembly factories. The newly operational facility will |
| Centre is fully operational. The said facility is located at | | | | also analyze vehicle production. All the tasks |
| Nissan's Zama Operations Center in the Kanagawa | | | | performed in all assembly plants will be analyzed by |
| Prefecture. The said facility will be the crucial link in | | | | Nissan's engineers at the GPEC. Production of |
| Nissan's production all over the world. The Global | | | | automobiles as well as other components such as |
| Production Engineering Centre (GPEC) will be focusing | | | | Nissan grille guards, body kits, and other components |
| on the production methods used by the different | | | | will also be the concern of the new facility. The |
| Nissan assembly facilities scattered across the globe. | | | | production technology that Nissan aims to develop is |
| Nissan aims to use the GPEC to develop new | | | | expected to increase the efficiency and quality of |
| production technologies which will ensure that their | | | | current production techniques used by the company's |
| assembly plants will be producing high quality Nissan | | | | numerous assembly facilities. |
| vehicles. | | | | The opening of the new facility is in connection wit |
| Hidetoshi Imazu, Nissan's Executive Vice President, has | | | | Nissan's effort to increase its offering in terms of their |
| this to say with the opening of the Global Production | | | | auto lineup. Last fiscal year saw the company post its |
| Engineering Centre: "The new GPEC and Global | | | | first loss since Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn |
| Training Center (GTC) represent long-term | | | | took over. The dismal sales performance of the |
| investments for Nissan in terms of delivering | | | | company is blamed on the scarcity of choice for car |
| high-quality products to our customers worldwide. Both | | | | buyers. To turn the company around, Nissan |
| facilities are critical to the continued evolution of the | | | | announced that they will be offering new car models in |
| Nissan Production Way (NPW) as a proven global | | | | the near future. The new engineering center will play a |
| standard. As we cut down the development lead time | | | | big role in ensuring that these new cars will be |
| to introduce more new products and build them across | | | | produced efficiently and will be of high quality. We can |
| the world, it is important that Nissan maintains the high | | | | expect that Nissan will be coming up with high quality |
| levels of quality that our customers expect." | | | | cars in the near future and this facility will have a big |
| Among the tasks that the facility will perform is | | | | hand in making that a possibility. |
| production trial. This step is important to find out how | | | | |