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with all the man power being and been layed off the last couple of years. and the auto companys (Chrysler,Ford,General Motors, Nissan and others ) running the plants with hundreds of less people.
why is it there still able to produce the same quality product.

i for one would think these auto's would start showing up with the same problems they did in the 60's and 70's loose or missing bolts and parts. recalls every time you turn around do to design faults.
but im not seeing this happen. you think the auto plants were just blotted with extra staff. not really needed to build these cars.(there only so much room for works on the assembly lines. maybe the auto Company's are just starting to really get the work out of the employees. they have had on there payroll for all these years. and the old ones that had it easy were the lucky ones for 20 plus years of employment.

personal i worked in the a auto plant for 5 months till was layed off in 1969. and from what i seen first hand. working at the plant I was at. working outside for the private sector. those people were clueless as to how easy they had it.

I think the Japanese never had a quality issue like missing bolts. Their cars from the 60's and 70's were just cheap like some of the first cars from Korea. I would think that most auto plants have some decent quality control in place to catch stuff like this.
The cut backs are them simply switching form trucks and SUV's to small compacts, since demand is dictating what the consumer wants. With changes like this, there will always be some layoffs so they can make wall street happy.

Assembly plants use a lot of robots and improvements in a lot of manufacturing technologies - from metal forming to lost foam casting - have made vehicle plants much less people intensive than in the past.

also note that the layoffs are due to cutting production so the workers that get to stay dont have to pick up the slack.