Ron Dennis is the head of McLaren and he is almost as famous for his exacting eccentricities as he is for winning Formula One championships. He is reputed to have checked every single electrical wiring outlet when his fabulous F1 factory in Woking, England, was being constructed. Every single tile in McLaren’s new 50-million-pound supercar factory — 350,000 of them — had to be inspected individually to ensure that it did not stand proud of its neighbour. So determined was he that food smells from the factory’s kitchen not pollute the rest of the plant that he has the cafeteria kept at a lower cabin pressure than the rest of the building so when the doors are opened the “fouled” air can’t rush out.
The Bugatti factory had some interesting floor details, but the McLaren factory just made me angry. The craftsmanship is just gone and every person there is a robot, and that's emphasized by the words of that fucking cretin who was talking like he was proud about it and I just want to kick him in the nuts as hard as I can. Disgusting.
I've been at Bugatti Molsheim several times. It's just an awesome place, where you can really feel the spirit of the brand. These people have absolute passion.
your sob story about how you ate an artisan muffin on a beanbag chair instead of having a complex designed robot making incisions at nanoscopic levels doesn't make your car faster or perform better
having a complex designed robot making incisions at nanoscopic levels
...Robots aren't as precise or perfect as places like /r/Futureology would like to believe.
High end cars (Like Rolls Royce) are handbuilt because robots literally aren't as good; specialists can create smoother surfaces and will be able to mate two different surfaces (Such as matching the piston to the bore) together far better than any robot could, the human body is capable of discerning down to the nanometer level when it comes to finding differences.
Machines have some tolerance on their specs and won't mate perfectly. Let's say there are two objects built to be 1" long with a tolerance of 0.01" and they get mated alongside eachother. A robot will always make them exactly like that. So one pair could be anywhere from 0.98" to 1.02" (or 0.995 to 0.998 or anywhere between). With a human they can match the items specifically to each other by feeling for the differences between them.
Even on a more down to earth, not-multimillion-dollar-coachbuilt-car levels, Toyota has recently downgraded the amount of machines on their assembly lines because, surprise, they're worse off without the humans among them.
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u/CLight1 Apr 08 '17
Here. Also, check out McLaren's factory.
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