Quick Tour: Mack/Volvo Hagerstown Powertrain Plant
The new Mack axle production line covers 100,000 square feet and is currently producing 128 units on each shift.
Long-time Hagerstown production worker Dan Dawson details just what goes into machining a Mack axle.
The Haggerstown plant develops and assembles diesel engines and other major components for Mack trucks, which are built at the company’s cab and vehicle assembly plant in Macungie, Pa.
The new Mack drive-axle assembly line uses automated guided vehicles to move axle housings along the production process.
Automated guided vehicles transporting drive-axle housings line up to head on down the assembly line.
Engines blocks, mounted on automated guided vehicles, making their way to the next station on the assembly line.
Quality control is handled right on the factory floor in each assembly area.
Dedicated assembly line for the Mack T300 manual transmission.
Mack began assembling its mDrive automated manual transmission for highway trucks at Hagerstown in 2012 and is now assembling its new heavy-duty version for vocational trucks, the mDrive HD, at the plant as well.
A Mack mDrive automated manual keeps on coming together.
Evident on the automated manual transmission line is the blend of automated and hands-on production common throughout the Hagerstown operation.
High-tech chamber for assembled automated manual transmissions evaluates shifting performance under load.
The $30 million investment that brought Mack axle assembly to Hagerstown also was used to upgrade the plant's engine-assembly operations and centralize its aftermarket-core warehousing.
Mack executives, including president Stephen Roy (right). field questions during media briefing at official rollout of new axle assembly line on Oct. 13, 2015.
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This Mack drive axle is nearing the end of the line.
A large observation deck affords plant visitors a nearly 360-degree view of the goings-on about the engine assembly area,
One corner of the engine assembly line, viewed from the observation deck.
Another view from on high of the assembly line for Mack MP7 and MP8 engines and Volvo D11 and D13 powerplants. Mack MP 10 and Volvo D16 engines are built by the OEM in Sweden.
Assembly line for Mack mDrive and Volvo I-shift automated manual transmissions.
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