Visteon Corporation Creates the Visteon Neighborhood to Enhance Product Innovation and Customer Service
07 August 2004 - 3:33AM
PR Newswire (US)
Visteon Corporation Creates the Visteon Neighborhood to Enhance
Product Innovation and Customer Service Company consolidates from
13 sites to four VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ --
The opening of Visteon Village completes Visteon Corporation's
(NYSE:VC) plans to create a consolidated "neighborhood" to enhance
collaboration among employees, which will lead to a higher level of
product innovation and customer service. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001201/DEF008LOGO ) "This
helps us take our creativity and innovation process to a high
level," says Jim Orchard, executive vice president and president of
North American operations. "The benefits we will realize from the
Neighborhood will help us win in a highly competitive marketplace.
The key to winning is getting there first through the speed
collaboration and innovation brings us." The consolidation
demonstrates Visteon's ongoing plan to become more efficient.
Visteon had 23 non-manufacturing facilities in Michigan when it was
spun off from Ford Motor Company in 2000. That number is down to 13
today, and when the consolidation is complete, the Visteon
Neighborhood will include just four key office sites. Cost savings
and greater efficiencies will be achieved through the elimination
of office leases and consolidation of operational teams needed at
the previous sites, such as facilities management and
reprographics. "Our annual carrying costs on the Village will be
about the same as our lease and operating costs on the facilities
we are in today," says Orchard. The newest facility in the
Neighborhood is Visteon Village, which is located eight miles from
the geographic center of Visteon's Southeast Michigan employee
base. In addition to 3,200 employees at the Village, the
Neighborhood includes Visteon's Dearborn Campus, the Helm Street
facility in Plymouth and the Rawsonville facility in Ypsilanti. At
the outset of the Neighborhood's design, a key area of focus was
adjacency -- deciding where groups should be located to best
support the business. To meet that objective, Visteon senior
management conducted a workflow and adjacency study. This study
helped them determine which groups needed to be located near one
another to make the business run at optimum efficiency. A "fit up"
process then determined how floor plans would be configured to
support each group in the Village and re-configured in the three
existing facilities. "What we've done in creating the Visteon
Neighborhood is to bring our employees closer together," says
Orchard. "It has been a strategic process of placing the right
teams with the right resources that make the most sense for our
business and for our customers." Teams in the Neighborhood Dearborn
Campus Interior, Exterior, Vehicle Electronics, Chassis and
Consumer Electronics Core Engineering Groups, Quality and
Aftermarket. Helm Street Facility Climate Control Core Engineering
Group, Materials Management, Quality and Manufacturing. Rawsonville
Facility Materials Management, Commodity, Engineering Information
Technology, Powertrain Core Engineering Group and Materials
Engineering. Visteon Village Customer Business Groups, Product Line
Teams, Innovation and Advanced Business Development, Manufacturing,
Materials Management, Quality, Global Program Management, IT,
Finance, Marketing, the Design Center, the Executive Team and
Corporate Relations. Visteon Corporation is a leading full-service
supplier that delivers consumer-driven technology solutions to
automotive manufacturers worldwide and through multiple channels
within the global automotive aftermarket. Visteon has approximately
72,000 employees and a global delivery system of more than 200
technical, manufacturing, sales and service facilities located in
25 countries.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001201/DEF008LOGO DATASOURCE:
Visteon Corporation CONTACT: Kim Welch, +1-313-755-3537, , or
Melinda Czarnecki, +1-313-755-5448, , both of Visteon Corporation
Web site: http://www.visteon.com/
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