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A few random comments, having toured a few auto plants and watched plenty of videos: * I'm surprised to hear Tesla is using robots to install seats. This isn't
by rconti 8y ago
A few random comments, having toured a few auto plants and watched plenty of videos:
* I'm surprised to hear Tesla is using robots to install seats. This isn't common, from what I've seen.
* I toured the Tesla factory back in October, perhaps a month after touring BMW in Munich. Tesla was vastly less automated than BMW, for better or for worse. So I take the whole "Tesla is automating EVERYTHING!" with a grain of salt.
* It's not uncommon for cars to have the seatbelt integrated into the seat itself. Particularly with convertibles.
* A lot of this reads like a puff piece.
- danso 8y ago> So I take the whole "Tesla is automating EVERYTHING!" with a grain of salt. FTA: > Even so, Tesla says the Model 3 body line is now 95 percent automated, including the transfer, loading, and welding of parts. Apparently, there's a big difference between the "body line" assembly and the rest of the line, as people in r/teslamotors have pointed out: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8pim5q/inside_teslas_model_3_factory_tesla_says_the/e0bjy80/ https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8pim5q/inside_... > When I was visiting the BMW plant in Munich a few years ago, they said the body line was automated 99%. It‘s really impressive, showed me that the real secret is not in the design of your car, but the design of your assembly line. > But keep in mind that this is only the body line. The rest of the assembly process involves quite a bit more humans.
- rconti 8y agoAh, cool, thanks. Yeah, I saw humans doing TONS of stuff at Tesla; driving forklifts around (dragging chunks of wood under the wheels and bumping into things), etc. OTOH its also possible BMW just hides that stuff from their tours :)