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The Google Image search isn't reflective of an actual car factory.. There are of course hundreds of workers there but final assembly facilities produce somethi
by mikeyouse 5y ago
The Google Image search isn't reflective of an actual car factory.. There are of course hundreds of workers there but final assembly facilities produce something like 1 car/minute. They're heavily reliant on robots - most of the parts move around the floor on autonomous transports, the stamping is all robotic, all of the frame welding is robotic, paint is of course robotic.
GM is of course tied in with the UAW, so they're going to be as favorable to labor as possible in their promo videos, but take a look at this video of one of their production facilities, this is reflective of the amount of manual input into modern automotive production:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ow7gmZTIpo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ow7gmZTIpo
- jrwoodruff 5y agoI've toured this plant. They don't show it in this video, but in the stamping and body areas of the plant, they don't even have the lights on at task levels - it's a dusk-level lighting until a human enters the space. This plant was built circa 2006, and is pretty amazing. Bring steel coils into one side of the factory, get a fully assembled car from the other side.