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New United Motor Manufacturing Inc
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Though NUMMI does not offer any more tours, I wanted to give a review...letting people know how great the tour can be (and hoping they will reopen the tour right before the company closes!) They still offer Family Tours!
I got my tour as an orientation when I was an intern at NUMMI. It gives you a great look at how automobiles are made. Sara, the tour guide, is the BEST guide you will meet. You will NOT find another enthusiastic person than her, and she is being honest! Everyone knows her on the plant floor and its because of how friendly she is to everyone.
FYI - You will have a bunch of workers waving "Hi" to you during the tour.
You will watch a video and then go on a tour in a electric cart which seats about 25. You will see the Assembly Line, Body Shop, Stamping, etc. Paint would have been cool to see but we didn't get to see it.
I can just imagine how cool it would have been as a kid to go on this tour. Being in my mid-20's when I took the tour, I became a kid all over again .. The plant will be missed...
Children must be 10 yrs old to go on this tour. Reservations are recommended. Tours are free. They have three tours per day: 8:30, 10:30 & 12:30. (Tues-Fri) Go on their web site to make your reservations and be assured of a spot.
A 12 minute film begins your 'tour' of Nummi. Then to the factory floor where you catch a 45 'ish minute tram ride. Each seat on the tram, fits two to three people, there are no bad seats. Your driver is your guide and they know their stuff. The factory was up and running when we were there, so it was hard to hear at some spots. Overall, fascinating!
Cool insider tips: Pixar came here for some inspiration for the movie Monsters Inc. & most recently, Wall-E. Also, George Lucas used sound bites from the stamping of the metal for Star Wars!
It's obvious Nummi is a team effort and most seem to like their job if the waving employees were any indication.
I had a day off & I went on the Nummi plant tour which I booked from their website only 1 day before. It was kinda interesting. I had Sara as our tour guide, took about 1.5hr w/ 2 short video (one from Eye on the Bay and the other from Nummi on their plant), a short ride on tram to see some parts of the plant in action (can't see a whole lot, but I kinda felt bad for the workers-dark & cramped work space), some robot machines doing work, some carts that are automated too, & Q&A.
They make Toyota Tacoma, Toyota Corolla & Pontiac Vibe here. I asked about the Camry..I think she said they have 2 plants in the mid-West that makes them.
Everyone on our tour got a little green leaf pin of a car (don't know if you'll get one-it's my experience).
Separate bathrooms for men & women available before & after the tour, Not on the tram ride.
Free tour only during the weekdays: Tues-Fri. No tours July & Oct 2007 cuz of new models coming out. No Cameras allowed, bummer.
website to book tour:
http://www.nummi.com/
CLOSED! this sucks! the nummi tour has been canceled! (http://www.nummi.com/N...)
I was fortunate to be able to walk through the plant as well as around the plant for some work I was doing. I was amazed at how fast the trucks are put together, though I won't reveal the actual time.
For those on a tour when you arrive at the lobby you have to watch a quick safety video, which is common sense for most and does tell you a few important tips.
This place is state of the art and there is even the first Toyota truck off the built from the plant in the front. Tours are free, but there is a minimum age requirement of 10 years of age. Anyone that enjoys automobiles or their technology should definitely check this place out.
NUMMI was amazing! I first heard about it in my Systems in Organization class at USF. We've read about it, discussed it and even looked at pictures. But nothing can truly compared to actually visiting it.
When I arrived, the tour was supposed to be 70 minutes long, which might be a deterrent to some, but in my case I thought that the tour should be atleast twice as long!
They put you on a little electric powered Universal Studios-style tram operated by the tour guide (who is extremely enthusiastic about the company and the tour, so prepare yourself for it). She then takes you around various areas of the plant, showing you how they produce a particular line from start to finish.
The sounds, smells and sights you experience on the tour are amazing. Nothing else can compare to it. I was so stoked that the 70 minut tour flew by in what to me seemed like 10 miuntes. Which means that I'll be visiting again, this time with friends and family.
I've lived in Fremont for most of my life and I never went on a tour. I had the opportunity to visit the NUMMI plant last year. The tour was awesome! I had a cheerful tour guide who showed us some videos and drove us around the plant.
It was pretty cool to see all of the machinery and the parts of the car being put together into the final product. It's too bad we experienced some downtime on the tour, and the machinery were not running. However, it was cool to see the workers waving to the group!
I would go back on the tour again =)
P.S. The cafe food isn't good. Avoid if possible.
do you like robots?
how about robots that make cars?
would you like to visit the future?
You can get all this, and more, at the NUMMI factory tour --- it's a plant in Fremont that manufactures Corollas and other Toyota models. Their robot designs inspired Wall-E.
A tram ride takes you through the Stamping, Body and Weld, and Assembly areas of the plant.
Tours are free, and take 75 mins. Minimum age for the tour is 10 or 5th grade and up.
I've been slightly obsessed with this awesomeness ever since we studied its operations in school. I finally made my pilgrimage, and loved it dearly.
http://www.nummi.com/w...
Note: They used to have tours at 8am, 10am, and 1pm Tues - Thurs (concurrent with plant runs), but I think they've closed public tours for good at the end of Feb. Sad. But I've memorialized the signs of muda and kaizen for you in the photos!
WOW... this place was really really cool. My cousin works at NUMMI, and I had heard that they have a free tour that you can sign up for to get a glimpse of what it is like to work/see a car manufacturing plant in operation. I was told that Fremont heavily relied on NUMMI to provide jobs and boost its economy. I was also told that they had to shut down the previously GM plant and then reopened after Toyota closed a deal to make it a shared auto manufacturing plant.
I'm sure the tour isn't for everyone. For example, if you're not into mechanical engineering or assembly lines, you MAY not like it... but in the US, where everyone drives a car, it's cool to see how your ride came to be. You have to make reservations to take the tour, and tours fill up quickly are are early in the morning on weekdays. You watch a video about the plant and they tell you about the places the tour will not be able to take you into, and then you hop into a tourbus (like you would for Universal Studios) and then they walk you through the assembly line. All the employees there seem so happy and greet you as you hear about what role they play in the assembly line. They said that it takes about 6 hours for a car to go through the whole assembly line, and then one car is produced about every 90 seconds!! That is INCREDIBLE!! So you should go see it for yourself if you are at all interested in cars, and interested in the companies that run the Bay Area.
LOLz, did not expect to find a review of this place (I work here and decided to give it a shot). I work away from the plant area so my review will my comments are not contanimated. I came on the tour many years ago as part of my business ops class. Saw a short film as followed by Q&A session by the tour guide. Hopped on the trolley and went for a spin around the plant. I don't know of too many large mfg. plants in the Bay so I suppose if it's your cup of tea, might be worth it to check out. Fairly interesting. Lots of machinery. The tour is free. Come alone, come with friends, its a great time filler, like watching the discovery channel but in 3-D. BUT DO NOT COME HERE ON A DATE. just FYI.
