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Austin’s Integrated Approach Drives Efficiency

Austin’s in-house team successfully delivers site location, design, engineering, construction and maintenance for automotive-related manufacturing facilities. Our solutions drive progress for the ever-changing auto industry.

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Your Partner in Automobile Manufacturing Facilities

As automobiles continue to evolve, so do the plants where the vehicles and their components are manufactured. The automotive industry brings its own unique challenges to automakers, suppliers and their facilities:

  • Rapidly changing technology and market dynamics,
  • Flexible and sustainable facility requirements, and
  • Heavy competition in a global economy.

3D rendering of an automotive facility and its surrounding grounds

Austin recognizes the incredibly swift pace of change that has been taking place – and will continue to occur over the next few years. More change is happening now than in the entire history of automobile manufacturing.

We understand this dynamic because we live it every day and our solutions must match the evolution. It is essential that we build the future into every facility.

Our history in automotive manufacturing plant design and construction began in 1927, when our founder Samuel Austin formed a close working partnership between and Henry Ford and The Ford Motor Company. Since then, Austin teams have successfully delivered projects for nearly every major automaker and their suppliers across North America.

Fully Integrated Approach

Our fully integrated approach in the automotive industry is enhanced by:

  • More than a century of delivering design, engineering and construction for automotive manufacturing facilities,
  • Deep knowledge of the automotive manufacturing process,
  • Fast-track – and “flash-track” – planning and completion of automotive manufacturing facilities, and
  • A commitment to lean design principles.

As a result, we build more efficient, flexible and sustainable plants for OEMs and their suppliers. Austin’s focus on manufacturing and industrial projects brings extraordinary value as a business partner in this industry.

Austin team members have assisted automakers and suppliers to deliver:

  • More than 20 value engineering and re-design concepts for a major body, assembly and paint shop project, removing nearly $40M in project capital cost.
  • A preliminary plant layout that optimized capital cost and operations.
  • An efficient and controlled relocation of process lines and equipment to support the owner’s business plans without impacting operations.
  • A fully integrated BIM environment in the office and field to improve coordination, reduce errors, improve quality and save money.
  • A 200,000 square-foot automotive supplier plan expansion from concept to occupancy in 6.5 months to meet an aggressive production date established by the OEM, all in a fully integrated, in-house, design-build fashion.

 

Exterior view of the entrance to the Tokyo Roki de Mexico facility

Tokyo Roki

Automotive Component Manufacturing FacilityThe Austin Company, in connection with Alberici Constructors, designed and constructed a manufacturing facility for Tokyo Roki de Mexico in Santa-Fe IV Industrial Park in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico.View Details
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    Automotive Exhaust System Component Facility Site LocationAn international and an established U.S. based automotive manufacturer desired to locate an operation to provide automotive exhaust components for an existing customer located in California. View Details
  • Exterior view of automotive OEM facility

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    Automotive OEM Trim and Final Shop ExpansionThe Austin Company was engaged to perform services for this major automotive manufacturing plant to support the production of their new large-size vehicle.View Details
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