I stumbled on these while looking at some manufacturing vids on youtube (I'm a manufacturing engineer - total geekout time for me!) and I thought I'd share.
Here's a video of the S54 being built. Consider that this was shot 15 years ago
Now watch the video of the next-gen 2016 7-series being built. Notice how few people are involved in the actual assembly compared to just 15 years ago!
A lot of people might say, "Wow, it's all done by machines. What about all those jobs? How are people supposed to work when it's all done by robots? Well think about this: it takes an army of people to design, build, program, and maintain those robots. Same with the conveyor systems, and the presses, and the CNC routers, and.... you get the idea. As manufacturing evolves, the amount of labor required to build a product usually goes down, but not as much as you would initially think. Most of the employees who used to make (as an example) spot welds by hand, are now in charge of the spot weld robot. They didn't loose their job, they just took on a new one.
Anyway, all my work/geek stuff aside, here's some more cool vids:
4-Cyl non-turbo: check out the autonomous parts delivery cart at 7:05! (note to self: build robot to hand me tools while laying on my back under greasy e30)
Here's the head being assembled on a (I think) N20:
Here's an m52TU. Check out the automated visual inspection at 4:45
Here's a video of the S54 being built. Consider that this was shot 15 years ago
Now watch the video of the next-gen 2016 7-series being built. Notice how few people are involved in the actual assembly compared to just 15 years ago!
A lot of people might say, "Wow, it's all done by machines. What about all those jobs? How are people supposed to work when it's all done by robots? Well think about this: it takes an army of people to design, build, program, and maintain those robots. Same with the conveyor systems, and the presses, and the CNC routers, and.... you get the idea. As manufacturing evolves, the amount of labor required to build a product usually goes down, but not as much as you would initially think. Most of the employees who used to make (as an example) spot welds by hand, are now in charge of the spot weld robot. They didn't loose their job, they just took on a new one.
Anyway, all my work/geek stuff aside, here's some more cool vids:
4-Cyl non-turbo: check out the autonomous parts delivery cart at 7:05! (note to self: build robot to hand me tools while laying on my back under greasy e30)
Here's the head being assembled on a (I think) N20:
Here's an m52TU. Check out the automated visual inspection at 4:45
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