“Musk’s plan for a fully automated, so-called ‘lights-out factory’ — because robots can work in the dark — is a strategy many in the industry consider to be a short-sighted. Humans can help improve efficiency by identifying shortcomings and conceiving of ways to do things that will shave time and cost from manufacturing processes. ‘You grow into automation,’ Jay Baron, president and C.E.O. of the Center for Automotive Research, told me. ‘You don’t start with it.’
In one of his many public claims about his new plant, Musk expressed confidence that the assembly line would eventually move at about one metre per second, which Baron calculated as one car every fifteen seconds. Such a pace is twenty times the assembly line’s current speed — it’s an almost comical pace, and one that raises serious questions about what Tesla would have to sacrifice to maintain this speed on the line.”
— Jeffrey Rothfeder, The New Yorker
RE:SOURCES
- Rothfeder, Jeffrey; 2017. “Elon Must Has Delivery Issues.” The New Yorker. Posted January 10; accessed January 20.
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