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Re:Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its ... by gamblor956 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @01:59PM (#17812091)
As noted in other comments, other major carmakers can complete a car in about 1-3 minutes, not including customization tasks like painting.

So 37 minutes of rework per vehicle means that they're less than 5% as efficient as their competitors, despite the massive investments they've made their factory line. It's indicative of serious production issues and will be a major roadblock to scaling future production, since it means that if they don't solve the production issues leading to the rework, then they would need to spend 20x what their competitors to achieve the same volume of production.

EDIT: The 3 minutes is time-between cars. Each car takes 17-18 hours to get through the entire line. So 37 additional minutes is still pretty bad, but it's not 20x as inefficient on a time-basis. However, given the number of workers at the Tesla factory, they are still 20x as inefficient on a labor basis.

Re:Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its ... by jessewmc on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:53PM (#17812600)
Are you sure? Not a production expert, but it sounds to me like this is a confusion of 'complete a car every 1-3 minutes' and 'complete a car in 1-3 minutes' They are two very different things, and I'm quite sure that no one is completing entire cars in 1-3 minutes.
Re:Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its ... by freeone3000 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:27PM (#17812340)
That's pipelined time, not per-car time. Just because a car is produced every 3 minutes does not mean it takes 3 minutes to produce - that would be incredible.
Re:Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its ... by rurban on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @03:41PM (#17813012)
It's not bad at all, because it is only needed once until the bug is fixed. It's only a wrong manual task, so fixing this task sounds even trivial.
Re:Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its ... by gamblor956 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:01PM (#17813182)
The problem is that it's not one particular problem with the assembly of the car--it's many problems that all need manual fixing. ("Manual task" in Teslaspeak refers to any task performed by a human on the line, not to any particular task.)