Assembly line videos

AiR said:
This. It looks so haphazard when people trundle about in whatever they fancy. It's like they're at some sort of adult kindergarden, not work. Factory work requires uniforms! Back at Pininfarina we had three uniforms, one for each factory, suitable for the different conditions in which we worked. The rented staff also had their own uniforms except in the paintshop.
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But forcing everyone to wear the same uniform if communism! :p This is 'Murica!

Plus I have to wear a reflective safety vest when I'm on the plant floor, thats uniform enough isn't it? :p
 
How is the dress code in a typical Ford plant? We required uniforms, safety shoes, gloves, no rings, no watches, headsets in one ear only (unless you were in an area requiring hearing protection).

We only put safety vests on clueless visitors :p, employees were expected to know the traffic rules. Yes the forklifts have the right of way. No they do not see you. Please walk within the lines. Yes it's all very fascinating. :)
 
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Gothenburg! A little shame they put a song over it, but you get to see much from C-factory.


Sk?vde! Also music but much to see!
 
Seats from 1990 to 2010


1996 brazilian-spec Ford Fiesta


60s Fiats: 500, 850 and 124


Citroens, from the early days to the 90s (i guess)


1961 Triumph Herald

 
Natural sound video from Audi, where it's very ljust och fr?scht.


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Let's also visit the Quandts who have been to a rave. It's good that they actually don't cut out the painting process, which quite impressive (starts around the 1:25).


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Screw it let's also visit the Benz...es...? This is the S-Class, so lots of senior staff everywhere. Also the most unnecessarily complicated marriage point I've seen. Probably due to space constraints and having cycle times measured in minutes. Lovely sound of chains and variable speed electric motors. Makes one all nostalgic.


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Just watch the entire Youtube channel, its gold
 
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AiR said:
Hey guess which American factory dominates the US export of automobiles? This one! It's clean, ordered, people wear uniforms, and it's in America!

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Usually, the factories I go to that are of European descent are extremely clean, bright, and orderly. Most American descent ones are, questionable to say the least.
 
Lovely, shame there's no sound. Look at the Renault middle manager at 1:19 pretending he knows what he's doing. You need gloves mate! To your bare hands any surface feels more or less smooth.
 
For a car so advanced, the whole assembly process was incredibly old-school.

[video=youtube;CxA_Z-veXdY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxA_Z-veXdY[/video]
 
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Dat soundtrack...
 
AiR said:
How is the dress code in a typical Ford plant? We required uniforms, safety shoes, gloves, no rings, no watches, headsets in one ear only (unless you were in an area requiring hearing protection).

We only put safety vests on clueless visitors :p, employees were expected to know the traffic rules. Yes the forklifts have the right of way. No they do not see you. Please walk within the lines. Yes it's all very fascinating. :)
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I think it's a stupid union thing. At the Case IH/New Holland plant in WI, the non-union labor force at the plant wore uniforms while the UAW workers didn't.
 
This clip is good when there isn't any music on it. When there's music the producers obsessed about the marriage point and fitting bumpers (which is normally a five second job). From the Smart factory in Hambach "Germany". Hambach is in France, but the uploader doesn't know that.

[video=youtube;uY7V1cu-m2k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY7V1cu-m2k[/video]
 
When you have people you don't need that much automation. So welcome to 20 years ago!

 
Don't know if this has been posted before, but it's a video from the Trabant factory shot half a year after the Berlin Wall came down.


According to this article originally written just days after the video was shot, they spent all their development money on a failed Wankel project, a fatal decision that forced them to continue with the two-stroke.
 
The epitome of the dirty plant. 10 minutes to 14, wow. That's resin they're working with!
"Spezialpapier" around 15 minute mark :D
 
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Now for a different type of assembly line video
http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/watch...enovation-in-mesmerizing-f-1657524899/+orlove (non embedded video)

The logistics of that are absolutely mind blowing.

EDIT: With the start of 2015 F150 production yesterday, I started looking around for what the River Rouge complex looked like historically. Found this

Not the whole assembly process, but the end of SN95 Mustang production. Man that plant looked so dark and gloomy compared to today's facilities. I can't imagine what it was like working there.

Also found this

 
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How about something different? directly from the 80s, a promo video (in italian and with no subtitles) for the industrial robots built by Comau. After a brief description (about 5 minutes) of the robot's features, we can see them in action in different factories around Europe : Volvo Ghent in Belgium (740, 760), Ford Halewood in the UK (Escort, Orion) and Fiat Mirafiori in Italy (Uno, Ritmo, also doors, tires, engines and body panels).

 
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