F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells

Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by Neil44 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:09AM (#35274163)

I've toured a couple of car plants because I find them really interesting - Porsche, Mini - the level of refinement, sophistication and tracability of their ERP is always staggering.

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Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by jillesvangurp on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:29AM (#35274461)

This is pretty common in industries like this. In the aviation industry, manufacturers record the tension with which each screw is torqued. That kind of fine grained logging is required for maintenance reasons and audited in case of e.g. accidents. Some modern car manufacturers use a similar level of detail in their manufacturing records. Common in both worlds is having very complex supply networks and just in time deliveries for these parts.

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Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by KineticLensman on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:32PM (#35277311)

> This is pretty common in industries like this. In the aviation industry

I remember reading an account of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident investigation, where it was stated the investigation was hampered by the lack of serial numbers on some components, such as the astronauts' chairs. This made it hard to reconstruct the breakup sequence from the geographical distribution of the debris.

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Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by koofdoof on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:20AM (#35274330)

Do you need special connections to tour one? I would love to go, but I assume it would be difficult as a member of the public.

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Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by sho_hn on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:31AM (#35274502)

At Mercedes-Benz we offer factory tours you can just sign up for. Agree with OP, well worth it!

Developing and iteratively refining a production line from pilot factory to network scale is not entirely unlike software development.

Here's a few clips of a modern one, including a longer doc:

https://youtu.be/UdDvDKC8FVM & https://youtu.be/TWLyRQbvr6o

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Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by Kon-Peki on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:28AM (#35274438)

You can tour the Ford River Rouge truck factory, which is where they make the F-150 and F-150 Lightning:

https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/ford-rouge-factory-tour/h...

I went on a tour of the VW Dresden factory back when it produced the Phaeton and Bentley Continental. It looks like they currently produce the ID.3 there and are still doing tours:

https://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/en/your-visit/our-tours.h...

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Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by ketkev on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:23AM (#35274374)

I believe Volkswagen's Wolfsburg factory is open for tours

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Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by Neil44 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:04AM (#35275929)

Anyone can sign up for the Porsche factory in Stuttgart, Germany or the MINI plant in Oxford UK, there are probably many others too. Stuttgart is really dominated by Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, there's an giant M-B star on the town's big clock tower. It's a very business-y town but a nice visit for a car nut.

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Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:38AM (#35276473)

While I was an exchange student in Germany, my cohort got a tour of an Audi factory.

That was 23 years ago, though.

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