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      01-23-2017, 11:29 AM   #57
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I've been the SC plant multiple times on both a personal and professional level. I can't speak to the other plants but I'm assuming they operate on similar level.

1. There is a lot of staff that work inventory/demand planning as they use the JIT inventory strategy. JIT reduces your on-hand inventory (cost savings) but generally increases staff count that does the planning/forecasting on the front end.
2. The car is mostly hand assembled after the body work, including pretty much the entire interior. The only thing that I can think of that is robot done after that point is the marriage of chassis/motor.
3. The robots require extensive maintenance which is obviously done by people. There was an entire section dedicated to this where they are taken offline, repaired, etc.

In all there are a ton of people at the plant. I would estimate about half do the assembly/QC (value added production) and the others are administrative.
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