Ford located its leanest plant in Camacari, Brazil. The plant, opened in 2001, is flexible enough to make 5 different platforms concurrently, on the same line. Suppliers are integrated into the process. Each has its own assembly line located adjacent to Ford's main assembly line and adds components to the vehicle as it moves through. The narrator may be exercising creative liberty when he states that the United Auto Workers would not allow this degree of integration in the U.S.