Deutz Expands U.S. Production Capacity in Larger Georgia Facility

Deutz Corp. recently moved its Value Add production operation from Norcross, Ga., to a facility with a larger, 60,000-square-foot production area in Pendergrass, Ga., enabling the company to increase the number of Value Add production lines from one to three.

Michael Roth

June 21, 2016

2 min read

Workers at Deutz39 new Pendergrass Ga facility The 60000squarefoot production area has enabled Deutz to triple its production capacity in the US — Workers at Deutz' new Pendergrass, Ga., facility. The 60,000-square-foot production area has enabled Deutz to triple its production capacity in the U.S.

The Deutz Corp. Value Add production operation uses base engines delivered from Germany and provides modification adjustments according to each OEM customer’s specific requirements. OEMs can choose to provide their own design specifications, or rely on the expertise of Deutz’s engineering team to design a custom-engineered solution. Deutz engineers then work closely with the OEM partners engineers throughout the entire process.

“Our Value Add lines allow us to provide customers with a high-value, customized engine solution,” said Jim Smith, director of production operations at Deutz Corp. “Moving our Value Add production lines to our new North Georgia location both increases our capacity and streamlines the overall production process.

“To make the process more efficient, we’ve introduced a number of important ‘lean manufacturing’ waste-reducing concepts to help to take the operation from a batch-build operation to a one-piece-flow operation. Our redesigned work stations ensure that the necessary tools, materials and documentation are close at hand. This has reduced cycle times by 25 percent and increased the line’s ability to run a wider variety of products.”

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Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.