Journalists
have been guided through Cummins’ first engine plant, the Columbus Engine
Plant, otherwise known as CEP, where the new ISV5.0 will be built. Pilot engines
are going down the line.
The last engine built at CEP was the N14 line. At one
time the N14 accounted for more than half the heavy-duty road-going engines
sold in America, and it developed an enviable reputation for being “bulletproof”
according to . http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2013/10/cummins-indiana-plant-gets-ready-to-build-the-isv50.html#more.
Cummins no doubt hopes the new ISV5.0 (which it has been
developing for the last 13 years according to sources) will prove just as
robust as the N14. The plant still does machining on ISX blocks and heads but
has been under-utilized since that engine assembly was moved to Jamestown, New
York in 2001.
