Thats a great vid, its been posted on here before but quite some time ago. Here's one of my favourites. not sure if I have posted it before or not. Its the Porsche factory back in the day making 356's. http://www.youtube.com/watch!v=LQBrQ5qd5w8
thejazzpianoma,
Mar 24, 11:44pm
LOL I actually passed a Phaeton the other day (it was parked!). they still look good even though they are a few years old now.
mrfxit,
Mar 25, 1:54am
LOL . WRONG . you really don't know much about Henry Ford . do you.
Cool factory tho ;-)
socram,
Mar 25, 6:43am
! Henry Ford was the instigator of the car production line was he not!
asa50,
Mar 25, 7:49am
Steven Watts wrote that Hitler "revered" Ford, proclaiming that "I shall do my best to put his theories into practice in Germany," and modeling the Volkswagen, the people's car, on the model T.[59]
asa50,
Mar 25, 7:51am
I have done some small scale automation, the cost of that line is beyond my imagination. Also unusual for a car plant to rely on public transport for its parts delivery.
im_andrew,
Mar 25, 7:57am
Shit imagine working there though. I can imagine it would be far too similar to working at Mcdonalds. I appreciate a clean and efficent workplace as much as every other bugger, but I bet going hard to keep up with the robots day after day would get old very quickly
socram,
Mar 25, 8:26am
Got to be better than McDonalds.No snotty customers to deal with!
You don't need to go hard to keep up with that particular production line.From what I saw, the assemblers were not working at 100%, or flat out - or anywhere near it.Probably a steady 75%-80% which means that the line is never under too much pressure and the labour content compared to traditional production lines was relatively low, thanks to the automation.
The original Mini assembly line was balanced at 2.5 minutes per work station.
The "goods tram" was a brilliant bit of lateral thinking.Attaching the body bolts from underneath was also impressive.
mrfxit,
Aug 24, 8:13pm
Yes, but theres no way he would have been happy with ppl seeing what he was up to in the factory
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