Calsonic Kansei, leader in auto-parts manufacturing

Calsonic Kansei started operations in Japan in 1938, it is located within the 20 best auto-parts suppliers worldwide, it has 80 plants around the world – located in 16 countries – and employs more than 20 thousand people.

The company is dedicated to the manufacturing of automotive parts such as air conditioning systems, exhaust systems, cooling systems, plastic parts, instrument panels and electronics.  It has a main advantage the capability of integrating different components to create systems that can fulfill the needs of each one of its customers, among which are Nissan, Mazda, Jatco and General Motors.

The role of production engineering in the Japanese company is to achieve a high quality product, despite in which part of the world the most efficient products are produced and designed.

Consolidated sales have exceeded 1 trillion yen since the fiscal year 2015, what represents a sales relationship in Japan, Europe, America and Asia.  Clasonic Kansei Mexicana settled in Aguascalientes on 1993; it currently has two plants, the first one located in Aguascalientes and the second in the municipality of San Francisco de los Romo.

In 2017, the company installed its own testing laboratory, after the need of keeping at forefront to cover the needs of the automotive assemblers worldwide.  The place has provided several benefits such as reducing parts and components development parts, supplying valuable information for the creation and adaptation of future technologies, generate logistics savings, customs or foreign laboratories.

In addition, given the State’s growth, the Japanese company dedicated to the manufacture of auto-parts, opened the expansion of one of its plants, with which they double their operative space adding up 3,400 square meters to their industrial building.

As company it is positioned as the largest on its sector in Aguascalientes and as the one that has more technological devices.

Within the technological innovations, the new area has a system to retain external pollution, through air baths to components entering the warehouse and also for its employees, this way they so called “Clean Room” is assured as a place free of pollutant agents.

The objective was for the company to offer competitive prices, by assuring the quality as a strong competitor in the auto-parts industry in the State, as well as in the entire Bajio region, where the automotive industry positions as the strongest.

The Calsonic engineering team is developing an innovative system to increase their productivity even more, increasing the working time of their assembly machinery, this system will be unique on its kind and once concluded it will improve the efficiency of the group globally, since it will be implemented in the Japanese corporate plants they have in other countries.