Electrical Equipment / Components & Telecoms

Due to the continuing shortage of global chips, Nissan is adjusting production plans at assembly plants in the United States and Mexico.

In the United States, the company will implement a regular production plan of 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, on Line 1 and Line 2 of the Smyrna plant in Tennessee. This factory that produces Murano, Pathfinder, QX60, Rogue, Maxima and LEAF models has temporarily stopped production.

The Canton assembly plant in Mississippi will continue to run Line 1 in June with a production reduction plan of 8 hours a day and 4 days a week. Line 2 of Altima will only be produced in the first week of June, and the weeks of June 7, June 14 and June 21 will be scheduled as non-production weeks. The plant produces Titan and Frontier models.

In Mexico, the automaker plans to suspend production at its No. 1 plant in Aguascalientes for 7 days and its No. 2 plant for 1 day in June. In addition, due to chip shortages, production at the Morelos plant will also be suspended for 7 days in June.

Semiconductors are key components in automobile production because they are used to control engines, anti-lock brakes, power steering, fuel monitoring systems, and heating and air conditioning.

The global chip shortage is due to the fact that the economies of various countries have begun to reopen from the new crown epidemic blockade, leading to a surge in demand.

In order to cope with the chip shortage, other automakers have recently extended their production cuts.