Re:Tesla is holding a hackathon to fix two robot bottlenecks...
by mgazzer on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @01:36PM
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I agree, but for context, remember that the other car companies have been fine-tuning their supply chain processes for the last 100 years. Telsa is by no means a GM or Ford in and as far as supply chain refinements. I imagine GM or Ford wish they had the popularity and customer desire that Telsa has, and we've been witnessing the start of their forte into the mass production and no matter how many experts you throw at a difficult problem, you still need to refine and mature your processes.
If Ray Charles tried to shoot the broad side of the barn he's probably hit the pinch welds on a Tesla in the next town over. Superfluous part numbers (like their multi-piece wheel wells) and material excess is the kind of redundancy the Model 3 has the most of.
Tesla doesn't make efficiently designed cars any more than Juicero made efficient juicers. Tesla has carved out a market niche that they won't easily be unseated from but efficient design is not that niche.
You can simulate and model all you want. If you don't have the expertise in house you won't be able to get much value out of it.