General Motors is cutting overtime production this weekend at two U.S. assembly vegetation that make its hugely rewarding entire-size pickups because of to the ongoing semiconductor chip lack impacting the world wide automotive field.

The vegetation in Flint, Michigan, and Fort Wayne, Indiana, generate a mix of the firm’s entire-sizing pickups, such as the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500 products as very well as their greater siblings.

This is the 1st time the Detroit automaker has reduce output shifts for its whole-sizing pickups due to the monthslong chip lack. GM has significantly minimized manufacturing at its car and crossover crops in North The us to prioritize chips for the pickups as very well as the company’s entire-sizing SUVs.

In whole, GM is reducing three time beyond regulation shifts concerning the two plants on Saturday and Sunday.

“As we keep on to regulate the semiconductor impact on our vegetation, we are balancing elements availability with our capability to run successfully for the total 7 days,” GM explained in an emailed assertion.

GM also generates the 1500 versions of the Silverado and Sierra pickup at a plant in Mexico.

In addition to the change cuts, GM reported Friday it is canceling scheduled downtime the months of June 28 and July 5 at all U.S. vegetation apart from a midsize truck plant in Missouri. GM hopes creation through those weeks, which is typically recognized as a summer season shutdown period, will help in making up misplaced production from the very first 50 percent of the 12 months.

The variations come a day immediately after GM and Ford Motor announced designs to quickly idle or prolong shutdowns at various vegetation in North America.

GM CEO Mary Barra and Ford CEO Jim Farley are expected to choose section Monday in a digital CEO summit with the Biden administration to focus on the international semiconductor shortage.

Semiconductors are critical parts in automotive production and are made use of in infotainment, electrical power steering and braking devices, among other factors. As multiple plants shuttered very last year thanks to Covid, suppliers directed semiconductors absent from automakers to other industries, making a scarcity right after shopper need snapped back again much better than anticipated. The automobile pieces can incorporate various measurements and diverse sorts of chips.

For months, GM and Ford have been prioritizing assembly of significant-margin vehicles such as entire-dimension pickups by cutting manufacturing of automobiles and crossovers. The companies are even partly making pickups to complete and ship at a later on day.

GM expects the chip shortage will lessen its working earnings by $1.5 billion to $2 billion this calendar year, when Ford said the problem could reduce its earnings by $1 billion to $2.5 billion in 2021.

Consulting business AlixPartners estimates the chip shortage will cut $60.6 billion in income from the global automotive business this calendar year.