TOKYO -- Honda Motor Co., Japan's second-largest auto producer, said it will integrate production of fuel efficient transmissions at a key domestic auto assembly plant in a move to raise manufacturing efficiency.
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Honda will move production of continuously variable transmissions, or CVTs, by March 2001 from a powertrain plant at Hamamatsu to its Suzuka facility, one of the carmaker's two main auto factories in Japan. Both facilities are in central Japan. After the move, the Suzuka plant will be able to supply in-house all the transmissions and engines it needs."The Suzuka factory can do a better job of monitoring inventories by managing the entire carmaking process," Honda spokesman Hideo Satoh said.