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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. (TMMC) is a Canadian automotive manufacturer and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. TMMC currently operates a plant in Cambridge, Ontario, and another in Woodstock, Ontario. The current President of TMMC is Brian Krinock. ==History== Since 1988, Canadian workers have been making Toyota vehicles. In the first year TMMC opened, 153 vehicles were built. Currently, the three plants that make up TMMC have the ability to build over 500,000 vehicles annually. That puts Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada in the top 5 global Toyota manufacturing plants. TMMC has been recognized with a total of 14 Plant Quality awards, which is more than any other automotive manufacturer in the Americas. These include 2 Platinum and 7 Gold awards. 〔http://www.tmmc.ca/en/history.html〕 TMMC isn’t just one plant; operations include three different plants — North, West and South. Each builds a different vehicle. What they all have in common is an approach to manufacturing known as the Toyota Production System or TPS, which has changed how automobile manufacturers around the world produce vehicles.〔http://www.tmmc.ca/en/how-we-build.html〕 The Cambridge plant opened in 1988, and has been expanded twice since. This was Toyota's second car-assembly plant in North America, after the plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, opened in 1987, and the first Toyota assembly plant in Canada. The Cambridge plant in its current configuration covers in space on and the Woodstock plant covers in space on . TMMC employs over 8,000 Team Members. TMMC has fourteen (14) J.D. Power and Associates plant quality awards, including the prestigious global Platinum Plant Quality Award in both 2011 and 2014 - the only Toyota plant outside Japan to ever win this award. TMMC was also recognized by the JD Power VDS as having the #1, 3, and 4 best assembly lines in all of North America 〔http://www.jdpower.com/press-releases/2015-vehicle-dependability-study〕 TMMC is the first plant outside of Japan to produce a Lexus brand vehicle. It is also the first Toyota plant in North America and the only automotive manufacturer in Canada to assemble both advanced technology hybrid (Lexus RX 450h) and electric (Toyota RAV4 EV) vehicles. The Woodstock plant celebrated its Grand Opening in 2008, and is now in full production of Toyota's RAV4. The location was picked due to its educated workforce, proximity to the Cambridge plant, and being adjacent to the major transportation corridors, Highway 401 and Highway 403. On March 28, 2012, TMMC announced that 80 million dollars would be invested in the Woodstock plant to increase production by 50,000 vehicles a year to a new total of 200,000 vehicles per year. This created 400 new jobs at the plant.〔http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/03/28/toyota-woodstock.html〕 On July 24, 2012, Toyota also created 400 new jobs at the Cambridge plant to handle increased production of Lexus RX line in 2 years to 104,000 vehicles.〔http://www.wheels.ca/news/toyota-to-expand-lexus-production-in-canada/〕 In April 2015, Toyota announced it would be moving production of the Corolla to a new plant in Mexico, but would assemble mid-sized, higher-value vehicles after 2019 in the Cambridge plant. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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