Rasta - Kavasaki (OFFICIAL VIDEO 2014)
Kawasaki unveils new test track facility railcar Lincoln, Nebraska.
Photos videos below Tuesday unveils new test-car rail and Kawasaki test track facilities seemed more like a concert or a motivational speech standard cutting ribbon.
All Kawasaki 1500 employees, most of them in blue uniform shirts, gathered in the car production plant of the company while the music sounded from the speakers and a large-screen television showed pictures of the scene.
In the background sat one passenger car M8 Kawasaki is building the Metro-North Railroad in New York and Connecticut.
This is a definite step in our history, Bryan Saucerman, director of the deputy factory car division, told employees, leaders of Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing dignitaries and guests, including Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman and Mayor Lincoln Chris Beutler.
This step is the completion of the test facility 40 million and the track.
The 36,000 square foot building test and test track 2,000 feet long are the Lincoln plant the only site in North America with the ability to build railway cars from the ground and test locally said Mike Boyle, vice president and director of the Lincoln Kawasaki plant.
Previously, cars manufactured in Lincoln would be sent on the Kawasaki railway site in Yonkers, N Y for testing.
Boyle has the advantage of testing in Lincoln means that problems can be caught before the cars are shipped off.
In addition, being able to see the mistakes they made helps employees learn from them and avoid them in the future, he said.
It is a much more effective way to build a passenger car, said Boyle.
Another advantage of doing everything in Lincoln, he said, is that more work US goes into cars, making it easier for them to qualify for federal funds under the provision American Buy American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Since the beginning of the production of railway cars in Lincoln in 2001, Kawasaki has nearly doubled the size of its factory cars and increased labor five times.
Although the plant consumer-products side, which makes the jet skis and all-terrain vehicles, saw its workforce reduced to a little over 1000 of nearly 1500 it a few years ago, the railcar operation has grown steadily.
There are now nearly 500 workers dedicated to producing railcar and that number is expected to grow by over 20 percent during the next year.
Boyle said Kawasaki will hire 115 permanent employees between now and April 2012, it speeds up the production of the M8 cars for Metro-North.
To answer this contract, we have to get production back on track, said Boyle.
Kawasaki has encountered problems earlier this spring when a supplier sent incorrect parts and had to stop working and lay off more than 100 workers temporarily.
But the workers are back at work, and production is now-and running again.
Kawasaki completed its order of 332 cars for the Port Authority Trans Hudson line, which, as Metro-North is part of New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority, in May.
It has an order for more than 400 cars for the Washington, D C Metro rail system, it will start working on next year.
But for now, Kawasaki focuses on the construction of the M8 cars.
The first three dozen cars were built in Japan, and many are already in Kawasaki Service plans to ship the first car in Lincoln in the course of next week.
guests and members of the media are invited to have up one of the cars M8 Tuesday during a test which served also as a ribbon cutting for the railway test facility.
The new cars have higher ceilings, improved passenger seat, designs, armrest and large bathrooms that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The cars have so far been well received by Metro-North officials and passengers.
Several people interviewed in March 1 story in the New Haven Register referred to as comfortable cars and also commented on the sweetness and calm of the walk.
I am pleased that the new M8 cars are well received by New York commuters and Connecticut, said Yoshinori Kanehana, rail car division vice president for Kawasaki Heavy Industries, the Japanese conglomerate Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing is a division .
Kanehana said it was important cars coming out of Lincoln also gain a good reputation, so that we can bring more projects to support this plant and its future.
Boyle said that with the investment in the plant in Lincoln, plan for the future is that almost all manufacturing contracts for U will be in Lincoln.
Yonkers The factory will mainly make service work, sales and modernization, he said.
Boyle said the plant in Lincoln, which mainly produces cars of subway and commuter is equipped to produce standard rail car travelers, like Amtrak, however, said the plant would need improvements to be able to produce cars for high-speed trains.
This may be in the cards one day Kanehana told those at Tuesday's ceremony is the goal of Kawasaki to become the rail car manufacturer travelers No. 1 in the U S.
We hope that with the support of the Obama administration and Congress, more investments will be made in public transport and intercity rail passenger high-speed projects in the coming years, he said Kanehana also invited the delegation of Congress Heineman and Nebraska to support such efforts Source.
Lincoln Kawasaki Kawasaki mobilizes LINCOLN The manufacturing operation here has much more sprawling Tuesday when the company executives, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman and other baptize 40 million company cars test facilities and plant expansion.
Three years in the making, investment Kawasaki in one of the largest Nebraska manufacturing operations will double the capacity of the plant production railroad cars that art is good news for customers as Metro-North Railroad, a transit line running from New York through parts of Connecticut who use the rail cars of the Lincoln plant is the production.
Growth is also good news for the manufacturing industry in Nebraska, which has lost about 10,500 manufacturing jobs, about 10 percent of the total industry in 2008 and 2009, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Since then, manufacturing job losses have stabilized and are now picking up momentum in 2010, employment in the sector remained even added 300 positions.
During the first half of this year, the state's manufacturing companies have slowly but steadily added 2,800 positions to their payrolls in June, manufacturers added more than 1,400 jobs in May 1200 landed Nebraskans manufacturing work according to data from the federal government.
Kawasaki, employing about 1 500 people of Lincoln and surrounding communities, plans to add 115 more jobs to keep pace with a production time scalability said Mike Boyle, vice president and director of the institution Lincoln.
This dynamic in manufacturing employment growth, labor officials said, is essential to the state's economic stability.
Tuesday Heineman applauded Kawasaki's efforts, saying he plans to take the Lincoln business development at the National Association of Governors of the Group, where he was recently appointed president as an example of how partnerships State business benefit of state economies and add jobs.
He also said improving Nebraska manufacturing sector is just a piece of the state's overall economic health.
He continues to improve, Heineman said manufacturing is a part of the diversity of our economy continues to grow, we are more diversified today than we were 10 years ago Obviously, agriculture is always the base, but now you see manufacturing, insurance and finance, technology, transportation, and it just goes.
This why Nebraska is growing while the rest of the country is to have more difficulty.
Boyle said the expansion project has received tax credits and worker training grants through the Nebraska Advantage Act The Company also participates in a state internship program for young workers, he said.
The plant is at full power back from the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in March, Boyle Shortly after the disaster, Kawasaki temporarily laid off 115 workers when a Japanese supplier has sent defective parts and cars production in Japan was hampered.
After Tuesday's ceremony, Heineman leaders and Kawasaki are boarded and one filled to their rescue, air conditioning Metro-North Railroad cars and it took for a run on the new test track.
The track is used to test the external components of the cars and is the Kawasaki factory the only North American facility capable of building railroad cars from scratch and test them on site, Boyle said that hundreds 'Kawasaki factory employees looked on.
Aboard the train, with its red and white accented interior, a horn let out a Toot, Toot and the vehicle began slowly the forest track.
Heineman, with a big smile, climbed in the front of the car as it headed toward a wide ribbon stretched across the track, I want to see them break the tape.
The passenger car broke the tape, then accelerated before slowing down to a stop then, almost immediately, zipped it into reverse, heading down the track about 35 miles per hour.
It was fantastic to be on the car train, to test, Heineman said that it is a state of the art, exceptional facility This is good news for Kawasaki, good news for the city of Lincoln and good news in the state of Nebraska Source.
Kawasaki unveils new car test facility follow @Lincoln Nebraska video M8 car # 9145, Kawasaki, unveils rail.