As one of the most efficient car plants in the world, Nissan Sunderland builds half a million Qashqais, Jukes, Notes, Leafs and now Infiniti Q30s a year, at such a speed that raw material is turned into a car in less than a day. Extrapolate Henry Ford’s eureka moment forward through a century of technological progress and you wind up here, in a cathedral of manufacturing in which men, women and robots create 115 cars an hour in a heavy metal ballet of collaborative effort.
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/features/c ... uary-2016/
inside Nissan’s Sunderland factory
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Rob, thanks for sharing this writeup from the Car Magazine. The Guy who wrote this needs a medal as this is probably the most complex / detailed step by step writeup I have read, it would appear he has a very good Engineering or an Industry Back Ground. What to me was interesting was that the Nissan Plant is virtually Self Sufficient which is the opposite to when I visited the Mini Plant early this year as this was all basically Sub-Assemblies being delivered from externally and then being assembled.
Looks like Sunderland is worth a visit - Thanks Dave
Looks like Sunderland is worth a visit - Thanks Dave
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@DaveBerlin,
What you're pointing out is due to historical reasons, many years ago Pressed Steel Fisher (Swindon) was an independent pressings facility who produced Body in White pressings and sub-assemblies for a variety of automotive manufacturers (Austin, MG etc.) and IIRC even pressings for white goods manufacturers during the leaner times, over a period of time PSF became Swindon Body and Pressings, Austin Rover, Rover Group Ltd and currently BMW Mini. Back in the day PSF would then ship these panels and sub-assy's along the A420 to the Cowley production facility (who back in the day also had their own pressings shop) where they would turn these into assembled Body-in-White vehicles and subsequently into fully trimmed vehicles.
The Nissan plant is a 'new' facility designed from a relative blank sheet of paper so it was possible to include all these things into the one factory.
What you're pointing out is due to historical reasons, many years ago Pressed Steel Fisher (Swindon) was an independent pressings facility who produced Body in White pressings and sub-assemblies for a variety of automotive manufacturers (Austin, MG etc.) and IIRC even pressings for white goods manufacturers during the leaner times, over a period of time PSF became Swindon Body and Pressings, Austin Rover, Rover Group Ltd and currently BMW Mini. Back in the day PSF would then ship these panels and sub-assy's along the A420 to the Cowley production facility (who back in the day also had their own pressings shop) where they would turn these into assembled Body-in-White vehicles and subsequently into fully trimmed vehicles.
The Nissan plant is a 'new' facility designed from a relative blank sheet of paper so it was possible to include all these things into the one factory.
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Not QQ related just a bit of History on the UK / BMW Mini, which might be of interest to some of the Oldies like me - Dave
A not-so-mini achievement, Oxford plant builds 10 MILLIONTH Mini : https://mol.im/a/7340961
A not-so-mini achievement, Oxford plant builds 10 MILLIONTH Mini : https://mol.im/a/7340961
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