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NUMMI isn't GM or Toyota owned, it's like an independent manufacturer. They build GM models and Toyotas also but I think it's privately owned by different people than the auto industry giants.
My fiancees dad owns a plastics company and he took his employees to NUMMI so see how lean mfg works. Problem is almost everything at NUMMI is robotic and smaller mfg shops in the area with less than 100 employees still do much without completely automated systems. Hell, even MASS precision, probably the largest sheetmetal and machine company in the valley has 400 employees and they're still following somewhat primitive mfg processes.
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