With a process heavy on manual labor and a huge complicated supply chain making vehicles with over 2000 parts.
Tesla are working on making a dark factory. Completely automated and that moves a car along at 1M per minute.
Tesla are working on making a dark factory. Completely automated and that moves a car along at 1M per minute.
From a Quartz article in 2014:
So far, people taking back work done by robots at over 100 workspaces reduced waste in crankshaft production by 10%, and helped shorten the production line. Others improved axel production and cut costs for chassis parts.
“We cannot simply depend on the machines that only repeat the same task over and over again,” project lead Mitsuru Kawai told Bloomberg. “To be the master of the machine, you have to have the knowledge and the skills to teach the machine.”