The automotive industry in the Southeast was surging when Inalfa opened its initial 300-job operation in Cherokee County, and the demand for the company’s sunroof products surged right along with it.
With a large customer base in the Southeast, it made sense for the company to announce a 100,000-square-foot expansion to its Acworth location, adding 100 more jobs and space for additional high-volume production lines. This building is utilized to encapsulate glass panels via injection molding and steel reinforcement bonding.
Quick Start has been Inalfa’s training partner since the beginning. It produced company-specific training videos on topics such as glass and steel reinforcement bonding processes, glass encapsulation and Inalfa’s TP10-BMW F15 Line for the BMW X5, the longest and most complex production line. Everyone on the floor also went through Quick Start’s pre-hire assessment process.
“The automotive industry can be a culture shock to anyone,” said Michael Adoyo, Inalfa’s production trainer of operations. “[The pre-hire] gives them an awareness of what it’s like and prepares them mentally before they actually hit the floor.”
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Our vision is to become the first-choice OEM partner in roof systems and integrated technologies in the changing automotive industry landscape — a partner that is trusted to deliver.
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With the production of over 2.5 million sunroofs a year, Inalfa designs, develops, manufactures, prototypes, tests, assembles and supplies sunroofs for brands like BMW, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, Volvo, Hyundai, Kia, Honda, Land Rover, Nissan, and more.
Inalfa designs and produces sunroofs for a wide variety of auto manufacturers.
With over 800 patents and a global market share of approximately 25%, the company delivers its roof systems to almost every major car and truck manufacturer in the world.
Five different robots are used in Inalfa’s glass encapsulation process, and assemblers must be trained on correct operating procedures for each.
Quick Start’s pre-hire simulations allow candidates’ basic maintenance skills to be tested in a controlled environment prior to performing real-time mechanism assembly on Inalfa’s production lines. Michael Adoyo, Inalfa’s production trainer of operations, observes applicants La’Shawna Johns and John Marcinkowski as they use standard work instructions to perform proper mechanism assembly techniques during Quick Start’s pre-hire assessment process.
After undergoing the pre-hire process, now-employees Rhonda Chambers and Lashonda Harris perform mechanism assembly on a Nissan Murano sunroof.
An Inalfa employee screws glass to a frame for the BMW X5 SUV line.
An Inalfa operator loads a glass panel onto the locating table to prepare it for the glass encapsulation process.
