Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory
by NovemberWhiskey on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:51PM
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>The line is bottlenecked by the slowest process.
I visited the BMW factory in Munich back in 2015; at the time it was manufacturing mostly the 3-series models (not sure now).
It was a generally fascinating experience; the most interesting piece of trivia was that, when scheduling the build order, they try very hard to avoid putting station wagons ('Touring' model) back-to-back.
This was because the build-time of the rear-window assembly on the station wagon took significantly longer than other models due to the rear wiper, and that you would get a literal pipeline stall if you had to do too many together.
I visited the BMW factory in Munich back in 2015; at the time it was manufacturing mostly the 3-series models (not sure now).
It was a generally fascinating experience; the most interesting piece of trivia was that, when scheduling the build order, they try very hard to avoid putting station wagons ('Touring' model) back-to-back.
This was because the build-time of the rear-window assembly on the station wagon took significantly longer than other models due to the rear wiper, and that you would get a literal pipeline stall if you had to do too many together.