Ex Auto, Ex Hitech, & Ex Owner of a 2017 Tesla Model S
Aug 21, 2018 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
1/$TSLA #OpsMgmt101#PoorQuality 1/ @lopezlinette, nice article. This is not surprising to me or other industry veterans. I have one rebuttal; FPY is not 14%, it is probably closer to 0%.
@lopezlinette 2/ In order to meet their 5k/week commitment, Tesla put untrained interns and employee’s on the line and lowered and probably lowered their quality standards.
$TSLA $TSLAQ #OpsMgmt101 Thanks for sharing. 1/ The good: Clean factory floor which is good.
The bad: Any lean or 5S is practice is very weak/poor. In good 5S it is a very "visual" factory. There is no color coding on floor or around racks to signify the state of WIP.
2/ They use a lot of red bins which goes against conventional visual systems. Red is usually meant for scrap/quarantined material.
Jun 20, 2018 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Updated rant:
You see that fork lift to the right? That is how they are LOADING the entire car and carrier to the line. Never in all my automotive career have I seen this. This is an epic cluster f*#%. No one plans to put an assembly line in an uncontrolled environment. 2/ So, they are literally picking up the car and carrier with a forklift from post paint inspection within the factory. Then they are driving it out of the factory over a shitty parking lot, jostling the vehicle body the entire way.
