Re:Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
by jacques_chester on Friday August 24, 2018 @06:58PM
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Rework dramatically slows production.
Tesla cannot get the rest of their booked-sale cash for an undelivered car.
But they must pay all the fixed production costs anyway. In cash, creditors at this point will be getting squirrelly.
Therefore: slowness in production is the fast-track to a possibly fatal cash crunch.
Re:Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
by karpodiem on Friday August 24, 2018 @04:07PM
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People are waiting 3 or 4 months for replacement parts for their vehicles or Tesla has had possession of the vehicle (and the person is using a loner) for a similar amount of time. That won't fly in the mass market.
Re:Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
by mcguire on Friday August 24, 2018 @06:08PM
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"But if you can make money with lots of manual rework on every product, it's no big deal. Something to improve next quarter."
Is Tesla making money?
Re:Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
by user5994461 on Friday August 24, 2018 @08:19PM
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>>> It just means that paying someone to rework 1000 boards was cheaper than throwing the boards away and spinning up Revision B immediately. It's not a big deal.
It's not about money. Correcting and refacturing a board takes time, in the order of months even for a simple one. It's too long.
I have so many electronic devices, from cheap to expensive, that have some passive component manually bodged on somewhere. They work fine. It just means that paying someone to rework 1000 boards was cheaper than throwing the boards away and spinning up Revision B immediately. It's not a big deal. Waste is worse than a product that is imperfect immediately off the assembly line.