Munkum

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by Munkum 9y ago
Apparently the suppliers told Tesla that the dates were impossible, but Tesla management didn't want to hear that and continued to pass on nothing but good news up the chain. It wouldn't surprise me if Elon only recently learned
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by Munkum 9y ago
There is no way that they are using friction stir welding in a high volume line. It's a very slow process, visually it's horrible (big scar along the joint) and, though I've no experience with it I would have thought that pu
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by Munkum 9y ago
It isn't even that it's hard. I mean, it's been done before, many times. But there are processes here with a stack of key control parameters that can and will drift. Panels will not be consistent - they never are (and you&#
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by Munkum 9y ago
Really not the case. Space X have built, um, not many rockets. Tesla are planning to churn out hundreds of thousands of cars. The key isn't being able to do it (as someone else said joining metals is a solved problem), it's bein
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by Munkum 9y ago
No, this is not a good plan at all, it's incredibly risky. To get the car all road legal it needs to be crash tested - that is usually what the pre-volume builds are used for. If they fail (and they sometimes do, because you can'
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by Munkum 9y ago
The body on an electric car is basically no different to an ICE car. The floor is flatter and thicker to accommodate the battery pack and no need for a tunnel to accommodate the drive train, but other than that they're about the same.
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by Munkum 9y ago
There is no way on god's earth that Tesla can ramp up production like that. I suspect the first cars that they sell will roll off the VP tools and not off the main lines anyway. With a lack of product maturation the quality of the fi
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by Munkum 9y ago
I work in the automotive sector. Not interested in human-robot collaboration at all, I was wondering whether this would be a suitable alternative to PLC control of spot welding and handling industrial robots. Even though the processing po
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by Munkum 9y ago
How does it benchmark against other modern PLCs? Could you give a ballpark figure for the scan time of a 10 robot cell for example?
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by Munkum 9y ago
Can these be programmed by any of the 61131-3 languages?
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by Munkum 10y ago
The more parts in assembly there are, the harder it is to control quality. You have to trust that the 3rd party supplier is meeting the required spec in manufacture and that the parts are damaged in transit.
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by Munkum 10y ago
In car assembly lines there are often gantries, conveyor systems (accumulating and EMS), trunnions and other high level equipment that prevents the use of track cranes. First choice would be to extract heavy equipment by manitou or fork-li
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by Munkum 10y ago
I read that and have zero confidence that there will be a leap forward in productivity. Density of automation equipment is all well and good, but it comes at a price of being difficult to maintain. If a tool or a robot breaks in some way (