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Honda is now able to produce a new car every 85 seconds after deploying a continuously moving, inverted monorail conveyor for the dashboard sub assembly line at its UK manufacturing plant in Swindon

Motor manufacturers are reeling from the aftermath of the Japan earthquake and its impact on component supply chains worldwide. How damaging are the plant stoppages? And how are supply chains reshaping to mitigate risk? By Nick Allen.

As aftershocks continue to hit Japan, and automotive plants around the world adjust to shortages of key components, perhaps it’s time to re-think our approach to supply chain risk.

The scale of last Friday’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan and the devastating impact of its tsunami on the costal region north of Tokyo will, almost certainly, cause reverberations across global supply chains.