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by snuze
2515 days ago
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“Tesla has spent a lot of resources reinventing car manufacturing and yet they can't produce a vehicle that meets their needs.” Where are you getting this information? Design and manufacturing influence one another. None of the “leaders” in automotive space outsource their design or manufacturing. You need to control and master both to compete in this space. Perhaps you can take the Apple route and outsource the labor (Foxconn), but Apple still controls much of the manufacturing process such as introducing friction-stir welding to shrink the iMac or introducing unibody aluminum machining to the MacBooks and iPhones. |
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To start with, this article of many articles on the subject. Plus Musk has spoken on the subject too.
Manufacturers have known for decades that over automation is a problem. The dream is to put raw resources at one end and get a finished product at the other without humans touching any of it. The closer you get to total automation the harder it gets to do it. There's a fine line that must be found.
Tesla has not shown that they have found the best manufacturing process so they should get help.
Also, it is almost never the best practice to produce a product 100% in-house. It requires too many resources and it's very hard to do it at the lowest cost especially in low quantities. They aren't producing their product 100% in-house but from what I've seen in the past they've tried to produce as much as possible in house. Like I said there's a fine line that needs to be found.