Electric hub motor plant video

[Janger]

I just watched the first part of this video of a plant in China assembling electric car wheel hub motors. I was impressed - like I am whenever pretty much anybody makes anything...

At minute 7:00 there is a 'megger' meter testing the coils for leakage. I can't read the mandarin but the voltage and passing ohm ranges are pretty clear.

At minute 12:00 there is a galvo head laser burning a label into the paint.
At minute 14:00 there is a machine which installs 8 socket cap head screws all at once. It goes by fast but a lot happens, screws get fed down tubes, they all get set and spun in. wow.

@Susquatch and anyone else with factory experience - is this what factories are like anywhere everywhere these days? It's pretty impressive and making those motors seems a lot easier than making a gasoline engine...

the motor section is about 15 minutes.

 

[jcdammeyer]

I just watched the first part of this video of a plant in China assembling electric car wheel hub motors. I was impressed - like I am whenever pretty much anybody makes anything...

At minute 7:00 there is a 'megger' meter testing the coils for leakage. I can't read the mandarin but the voltage and passing ohm ranges are pretty clear.
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At minute 12:00 there is a galvo head laser burning a label into the paint.
At minute 14:00 there is a machine which installs 8 socket cap head screws all at once. It goes by fast but a lot happens, screws get fed down tubes, they all get set and spun in. wow.

@Susquatch and anyone else with factory experience - is this what factories are like anywhere everywhere these days? It's pretty impressive and making those motors seems a lot easier than making a gasoline engine...

the motor section is about 15 minutes.

Never worked in that sort of factory but did visit ones that made ICs and PC boards in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
I sat in the hotel lounge one evening chatting with a guy who worked for a IBM PC Video Card company. He commented on how efficient these factories are and how hard they worked. He was there because if the PC boards they were assembling were missing a part they would evaluate how long to get the missing parts so they could continue assembly or how long to switch the machine over to a product that had the inventory for assembly.
His job was to make sure they were never short of parts.
I am always so amazed with these factories that build things.

 

[Susquatch]

@Susquatch and anyone else with factory experience - is this what factories are like anywhere everywhere these days?

Pretty much even faster and better elsewhere except for a few notable exceptions.

At the beginning of the video, the press comes down and joins the parts with no requirement for the operator to press safety buttons. That would never happen here. It only happens there because human lives have no value and operators can be replaced with the next guy in line.

In my view, this is exactly where tarrifs should be applied. We should not be buying stuff from China that is built with lower safety standards or environmental impacts. A tarrif should create a level playing ground for our regulatory standards.

That said, here in NA, factory robots would place the parts, not a human. And it would do so at a much faster rate of production.

If you think those bolts were fast, you should see them install wheels and tires or head bolts all at once in a North American Plant.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

I'll have to dig out a video of a german motor automated motor plant for EV motors... mind blowing.. almost no people involved.

 

[DavidR8]

The thing that boggles my mind is the scale of production. Part of me is horrified at the consumption that demands this level of production.

 

[Janger]

I'll have to dig out a video of a german motor automated motor plant for EV motors... mind blowing.. almost no people involved.

Love to see that.

 

[Janger]

In this video see 29:14 for installing wheel nuts in about 1-2s. Like Susq said smokin fast. I wish I could do that!

The cover is click bait....the narration sometimes seems like it is for some other video, but it shows a lot of different USA car plants.

 

[Tom O]

Does she use those for checking the bore size?
Asking for a friend

 

[Gennady]

Yeaaa. I was about to ask - does anybody noted engine block there?

 

[Chicken lights]

Pretty much even faster and better elsewhere except for a few notable exceptions.

At the beginning of the video, the press comes down and joins the parts with no requirement for the operator to press safety buttons. That would never happen here. It only happens there because human lives have no value and operators can be replaced with the next guy in line.

In my view, this is exactly where tarrifs should be applied. We should not be buying stuff from China that is built with lower safety standards or environmental impacts. A tarrif should create a level playing ground for our regulatory standards.

One of the places I loaded at said that modern punch presses have too many safety features, to the point he felt it slowed production. He said he'd have bought spares years ago, if he had known

I get your point on the tariffs, but if an off shore forklift is $8000, and a domestic one is $75,000, that's a pretty large gap to make up. (That's what I'm told for pricing anyway)

 

[Susquatch]

I get your point on the tariffs, but if an off shore forklift is $8000, and a domestic one is $75,000, that's a pretty large gap to make up. (That's what I'm told for pricing anyway)

I have no idea what is all in those kind of dollars.

I was just pointing out that there really is a place for Tarrifs to level the playing field. IMHO, playing Russian Roulette with human lives isn't fair trade under any circumstances.

 

[Susquatch]

Yeaaa. I was about to ask - does anybody noted engine block there?

Says GM on the video title.