PM Opens Proton Tanjung Malim Plant
PRIME MINISTER DATUK SERI ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI OFICIALLY LAUNCHES PROTON TANJUNG MALIM MANUFACTURING PLANT.
The honorable Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi officially launched PROTON’s state-of-the-art manufacturing and assembly facility in Tanjung Malim on 26 February 2005.
The Prime Minister had earlier attended a briefing before being taken on a tour of the RM1.8 billion plant, the most advanced manufacturing and assembly facility in the country and in the region outside Japan and Korea.
The plant, which came on line one year ago, currently produces the GEN.2 and is responsible for rolling out the next and new generation of Proton cars.
Occupying 1,280 acres, the Tanjung Malim plant is five times larger than PROTON’s existing facility in Shah Alam. It houses five main complexes; the engine shop, stamping shop, body shop, paint shop and trim and final shop.
The plant has a 60 per cent automation level operating with 180 precision robots with a skilled workforce of 2,000 personnel, allowing both man and machine to interact more efficiently, productively and safely.
This allowed PROTON to optimize the operational efficiency, up to a level of 95 per cent productivity and has a pass ratio of 85 per cent. (pass ratio = number of vehicles passing through the line)
Unlike the existing facility in Shah Alam, the Tanjung Malim plant is capable of producing multi-model products on a common line making it more flexible in terms of production. Each line is capable of assembling vehicles on three different platforms and produce op to nine different models at any one time.
In its first year, the plant is expected to produce 150,000 units. The plant is designed to be capable of producing up to one million vehicles per year. The current production capacity at Shah Alam is 230,000 units per year.
