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Hi folks. Curious on the factory shifting.
How many shifts do they run.
How many days of the week to they run.
Just curious.
John
That seems more than what they actually do from the parking lot view, but that's often not indicative of the factory running.
For instance, in most large systems, they tend to shut down most during the peak working hours, and run most during the valley working hours. The logic there is that maintenance and tuning goes on during peak working hours, and then when the maintenance crews leave, the factory runs all night and weekend with a skeleton crew. This is true for cement factories, railroads, and I presume things like car factories, too. If this is all true, then it's possible they run 24/7 minus maintenance windows (weekdays 8-5).
I can understand that those who are used to manned assembly line stations rather than unmanned (automated) stations have an outdated view on this.
At the industry's peak before the crisis, about 10 percent of North America's assembly plants ran on three shifts. Now, about half do, estimates Ron Harbour, senior partner for global automotive manufacturing at the Oliver Wyman Group.
For example, the number of labor hours needed to complete a Model S or Model X vehicle has decreased. Whereas before, it took three shifts with considerable overtime to produce our target annual production of 100,000 Model S and X vehicles, now it can be done with only two shifts and minimal overtime
In this sentence it doesn't necessarily mean they have three shifts per day. It could be shift 1, shift 2, shift 1 is working on it, that's altogether also 3 shifts to assembly one car, isn't it?... it took three shifts ...