S650 Mustang Assembly Plant Video @ Flat Rock

[Radiant]

Did you break in there on a weekend?
thx for vid

There was a family open house on Saturday.

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[ZL1_1LE]

Great video, thank you for sharing.

 

[smurfslayer]

I’ve been through Detroit once. If you’ve been, you understand how the Raptor came to be. I’ve seen some third world stuff but roads around Detroit, make third world $h!tholes look like a modern city.

 

[Carter1776]

I find this interesting because here at the Honda Assembly plant i work at (make CRV and Civic Hatch), we run production in "lots" of 30. So what that means is that every color run we do regardless of model, is 30 units. Going down the line here you will almost never see a different color car every other car. It is a lot easier on the paint department to run in sets of 30 minimum, so it is cool seeing it work a different way for Ford.

Also interesting how similar all Automotive production plants look like as far as equipment and setup. Our plant has wider aisle ways for part distribution but a lot of the equipment i saw in the video can be found in my plant as well.

 

[Stangerous]

FYI

LMAO! Youtubers that have never had a real job "amazed" at the way the real world operates.

 

[samson]

Very neat. Yeah I'd love to tour a plant while it's functioning. Amazing how it all works, piece-by-piece.

 

[DeluxeStang]

LMAO! Youtubers that have never had a real job "amazed" at the way the real world operates.

What's with the negativity man? There's too much of that in the world.

 

[steveo1960]

Hahah you guys should see the F-35 fighter assembly line at Lockheed in Ft Worth, TX. It’s over a mile long, nowhere near as fast moving as these videos and a lot more hand done (there are reasons why). Been there a few times and it’s amazing every time I go!

Before I retired, I was a consulting engineer and back in the dark ages got to work with Grumman on L.I. NY and saw all kinds of skunkworks projects. At the time I had a security clearance of "secret" which I literally had to fill out forms with questions regarding my childhood and provide teachers references, like 3rd grade or so, and things like that. It was fascinating to me and some of my fondest memories are from that time as I got to sit inside war machines during development. Something the average person, like me, would never get to do.

 

[DontHitMeSafetyYellow]

yeah I can’t really go into too many details here on an open forum but yeah similar. Except I have another 11 to go before retiring… I’m in an research group for Lockheed so I sometimes get to go to the various facilities and get to see some cool stuff at times (like the F-22 when they were being built in Marietta) and the F-35 line, and some of the ordinance and missile production lines. Line I got to play around for a bit in the Blackhawk helicopter sim at Sikorsky a few years ago. The sim guys were pretty surprised I was able to land it on the back of a moving destroyer… asked if I was a pilot. Nope! Just a LOT of MS flight simulator! Have also gotten to play a bit in the F-16, F-35 and F-22 “medium fidelity” simulators at different Lockheed events.

 

[DontHitMeSafetyYellow]

Was it just before they fully restarted production as other than body assembly not a lot appeared to be happening.
I hope those unpainted bodies weren't sat there too long.

The 'race car' one is probably a defective body that they'll make into a dark horse R.

I did like their quality objectives board and that most metrics were in the red. 43 cars /hr is reasonable but quite slow.

The plant looked quite tired / old and out of date in comparison to a VW / BMW / JLR plants that i've been to.

As for the F150 vids looks to be a lot of cycle time left on the table. By robots and humans.
In a plant that churns out over 60 an hour every robot is synchronised to almost no dwell time unless the process needs it.

It's likely they use the older slower less modern plants for the models that have smaller production runs like the Mustang. Why use a modern high tech factory when that's used likely for 100% F-150 ?

 

[Radiant]

It's likely they use the older slower less modern plants for the models that have smaller production runs like the Mustang.

Yeah. The F-150 justifies having a factory that can turn out a truck every 53 seconds. Ford sold 53k Mustangs in the United States last year. Last month alone, Ford sold more than 68k F-150s.

I hope Ford has an additional vehicle in the works for FRAP, the potential to deliver Mustangs faster, have more Dark Horse allocations, et cetera - ultimately depends on the "FRAP future mystery vehicle".

 

[Stangerous]

What's with the negativity man? There's too much of that in the world.

Ewww, touch a nerve? LOL It's a flippin factory, nothing to get that excited over. They've been around for over 100 years. Calm down.

 

[MCS]

Yeah. The F-150 justifies having a factory that can turn out a truck every 53 seconds. Ford sold 53k Mustangs in the United States last year. Last month alone, Ford sold more than 68k F-150s.

I hope Ford has an additional vehicle in the works for FRAP, the potential to deliver Mustangs faster, have more Dark Horse allocations, et cetera - ultimately depends on the "FRAP future mystery vehicle".

Well I know that one Dark Horse hasn't rolled off the line yet. Based on that video I am wondering if they are waiting for the Handling Pack tires. Maybe they could throw in an extra set for me so I can put some Pilot Sport 4S on there for my daily tires.

 

[roadpilot]

What's with the negativity man? There's too much of that in the world.

This isn't a bakery. We don't sugar cost things here.

 

[Mustang1987]

LMAO! Youtubers that have never had a real job "amazed" at the way the real world operates.

YouTube isnt his full time job if he has 60k subscribers.

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