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Yeah, I mean Elon refused to learn from the best. It's not like there are hundreds of books on the Toyota Production System. It's not even a secret. He had to
by carlmr 6y ago
Yeah, I mean Elon refused to learn from the best.
It's not like there are hundreds of books on the Toyota Production System. It's not even a secret. He had to actively ignore it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/02/16/tesla-thinks-it-will-school-toyota-on-lean-manufacturing-fixing-model-3-launch-would-be-a-start/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/02/16/tesla-th...
- throwawaysea 6y agoThe Toyota production system is less about the physical manufacturing techniques and more about the framework for their industrial and corporate process. I imagine it still takes time to fix each error that accumulates into a panel gap ultimately.
- carlmr 6y agoIt still takes time, but he's not following it, otherwise the line would be stopped when a worker spots a quality issue, e.g. paint not dried, or Panel gaps misaligned. Also in the TPS you only automate processes that you know exactly how to do manually. Elon tried to start with automation from the start, ignoring that automation of processes you only know partially ends up multiplying your quality issues.