Huppert Engineering’s Resident Supplier Quality Liaison’s and Engineers are our clients representative within a customers facility. Being the “eye’s and ear’s” to minimize issues and implement solutions.
Huppert Engineering Has been providing resident in-plant support for decades within the USA, Canada and Mexico.
Knowledge and Experience
- Building relationships at the “plant level”
- Working with Supplier Quality, Engineering, Launch, Manufacturing and Logistics within a supplier plant
- Mechatronic assemblies, electronic actuators
- Casting, machining and various other processes
- Scrap reporting and real time data communication
- Managing sorting/containment companies and also performing sorting and containment
- Product re-work
Resident In-Plant Locations
USA
•Borg Warner Seneca, S. Carolina
•FCA Dundee Engine Plant, Michigan
•FCA Trenton Engine Plant, Michigan
•FCA Sterling Heights, Michigan
•Detroit Diesel / Daimler Truck USA, Michigan
•GM Lansing Grand River Assembly, Michigan
•GMPT Tonawanda, New York
•GMPT Spring Hill, Tennessee
•GM Warren, Michigan (VEC)
•GMPT Pontiac, Michigan
•GMPT Flint Engine Plant, Michigan
•Volkswagen Chattanooga, TN
•Nissan Decherd, TN
•Ford Dearborn, Michigan
•GM Romulus Engine Plant, Michigan
•GM Lake Orion Assembly, Michigan
•FCA CTC
•GM VEC, Warren, Michigan
•Chassix
•AAM Three Rivers North
Mexico
- Borg Warner Irapuato, Mexico
- Borg Warner San Luis Potosi, Mexico
- FCA Toluca Assembly Plant, Mexico
- GMPT Silao Engine/Transmission, Mexico
- GMPT Toluca Engine Plant, Mexico
- Lear Silao, Mexico
- Macimex Ramos Arizpe, Mexico
- Macimex Tenango, Mexico
- GMPT San Luis Potosi, Mexico
- GMPT Ramos Arizpe, Mexico
- Magna Formex, Ramos Arizpe, Mexico
- Magna Stamping, Ramos Arizpe, Mexico
- Seohan
- Hyundai Mobis
Canada
- GM Oshawa 1 and 2 Assembly, Canada
- GMPT St. Catharine’s, Canada
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Linamar / Exkor
In-Plant Resident Benefits
Cost Savings / Advantages
- Ability to support additional plants expeditiously.
- Face-to-face liaison communication with Plant Operations (quality and line personnel)
- Fast response 24 hours / 7 days per week if needed
- Oversee production, troubleshooting, resolving and minimizing disruptions, mitigating problem reports and resolutions (PR&R’s), negotiating scrap
- Working with plant staff to determine root cause of quality problems
- Support with Product Launches, PPAP, PTR’s and material scheduling
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Savings in travel costs for the supplier
Real-Time problem solving equals timely solutions