slapping a car together

[sapitron]

I'd love to play blind man's buff in such a peaceful place.

[heartlessvietboy]

A 10 yr, 100,000 mile warranty would be awesome. It should be the standard for all automobile companies. The problem is its on the engine not the engine components. What's the point of the warranty when the engine and transmission rarely ever fail on its own. They don't cover for neglect or abuse. What's the point when the components fail every 6 months causing hundreds and even thousands to fix? My fathers F-150 truck is on 50,000 miles 5 years of hard work. No problems whatsoever.

[vicko77]

if the companies make automated EVERYTHING in production,even surveillance would be done by computers,then simply the unemployment would still be greater & greater,and people wouldn't have any money,so companies would have to give the products to the people for free,and that would be end of their power over us. so that is why all the bullshit capitalist companies never automate everything. we could soon live in free paradise,but all the multinational and production companies they dont want it!

[vicko77]

seeing this vid every even the simpliest human must understand,that everything in the world can operate robotically like this assemby line. be it,a car production,food production,computer production,even production of automated robots on assemby line can be produced by robots. so then,why companies dont give for free all the stuff produced? cos by enslaving us in work,they get a profit! end of capitalism please!

[jarjarbinx79]

@vicko77 you're advocating a post scarcity economy. That will probably happen when energy is not a scarce resource. We can recycle everything we use (metals, etc.) as long as energy is free (Thorium nuclear reactor, nuclear fusion, etc), and energy can also be used for water production. People will then have work on things they want to work--like painting, cooking, designing new things, research, exploring (Space?).

[vicko77]

@jarjarbinx79 yes, with the exception of the mentioned nuclear energy, which i consider very primitive and which i do not support. Solar energy is much safer and cheaper. And there is abudance of Solar Energy everywhere! rael org

[khanthavone]

@MegaAstrodude wow. Just wow. You're something special. What fertilizerspike is referring to, I think is called the Zeitgeist movement for the Venus Project. And ffs, the Venus Project is infinitely more interesting than... Maintaining the status quo.

[khanthavone]

@MegaAstrodude The 'price of Gold, Silver, Oil' All are set by the international reserve currency. The US dollar. If the US dollar inflates, so does the 'price'. If it deflates, so does the 'price'. There are some gas stations in the US selling gasoline for 20c a gallon in the old >1969 money. That equals about 6 dollars a gallon in todays US dollar value of silver, but you get the point. That is what they are trying to do. The American dollar is so continually debased that it's near worthles

[catalina31768]

This music was the best music I have ever heard. Where can I find a recording? Man I was rockin.

[505stealth]

Kind of surprised to see in this day and age in car safety. Renault does still not reinforce their lateral and horizontal roof structures?

[x2crazy4shadyx]

10 ppl lost there jobs because of this robot

[tkdmaster01]

What is he doing 5:28 - 5:40? Adjusting part location with sensors, or just waiting?

[MrNikochannel]

Loose the music please.

[AMULET72]

that is thouroughly annoying music. so i have turned it down.

[jawbreaker480]

im eating chicken soup. i swear

[StopMotionNeal]

those carmaking robots will take over the world.

[sixamaras]

@StopMotionNeal are you John Connor ?

[StopMotionNeal]

@sixamaras Yes. Yes I am. >.>

[deluxedookie]

fuck robots thats the working mans job there stealing, robots can already do the white collar jobs, like call customer service and you talk to a robot @_@.

[TheFlanker35]

What company owns this factory?

[Sasebo0956]

This is very cool video how to assemble a body.

and my children can easyly to understand to how!

It is great ABB company.

[rightfredsdead]

@Sasebo0956 your comment meant no sense at all.

[rightfredsdead]

this is nonsense. these are not robots. they are simply step by step automated tools. they cant think for themselves or take over the planet. all they can do is a pre programmed list of actions fed into it by a human.

[kevinikevinikevin]

@rightfredsdead ... Fred. I hope you're joking. If not your understanding of the term "robot" is very inaccurate.

[rightfredsdead]

@kevinikevinikevin my understanding of a robot is a man made machine that can think for itself, and if left alone, will plot against us. a real robot should have some sort of lazer cannon too. and flashing eyes when angry.,

[MakeTheNoiseMTB]

So much energy and robotic genius to make such an ugly car

[salemcripple]

@MakeTheNoiseMTB not nearly as ugly as some of the crap that nissan and honda has put out in the past few years.

[AleksM1991]

As long as the car is sterdy, reliable and well built the looks

dont matter much. Since it is build entirely by robots, human error

is removed so people dont have to worry about shit falling apart.

[jawbreaker480]

@MakeTheNoiseMTB yuck

[GreubsAkaRTG]

Unbelievable!! I was blown away!! wow!

[Snurdgerbly]

I bet the music was produced by a robot, too.

[musclecarpower]

That is alot of work for a car that nobody wants except people that know nothing of quality.

[SuperBunkerbuster]

You say that but you never drove this car, isn'it ?

[fjp912]

That's cool and all, and I get that this is basically an advertising film for whoever made the robots, but I can't watch that without thinking of all the workers you don't see, and wondering how many of them have jobs making the robots and how many of them are on the unemployment line.

[kimjgiveen]

Excellent video - especially for teachers of robotics!

[brazomatic]

At 6:40 they report 840 spot welds. I'm not sure if that was the finished welding stage but the Lincoln LS had over 3400 welds, Lincoln Towncar had about 3000 welds.

[haygoodb]

There is more to assembly than spot welds. Structural bonding, mash seam "welding", etc. More than one way to skin a cat with robots.

[brazomatic]

I'll take the welded vehicle every time. I'm not sure what "structural bonding", "mash-seam" welding" is but I work in a plant that builds trucks now, and I would definately want my body welded.

[wks1978]

I like the way the robots do all the highly sophisticated assembly work, then all the man appears to do is slap a piece of paper inside it!

[One3teen]

And go to any dealer and the piece of paper has usually fallen off. Which is pretty embarrassing.

[FGX318]

All this process to build a shity car ! However nice vid

[07SuperchargedSS]

i wanna see the machines that make the machines that make the machines......its gotta start with a guy somewhere!!!!!!

[MrWombatPPC]

Love watching these things do there work. Shame you didnt include the spray painting bots, coz there also cool

[rinoldkirk]

if we have robots and computers do everything,then we wil have more time to better are selfs.

[BlackCarMafiaRidaz]

Fisting

[oceansdoor]

instead of the music they played for this video, they should have played some Perry Como or some Harry james.

[ENCOMAN]

Wow!! there paying a man to put a build sheet in the car. They should buy one more robot.

[cathkin33]

automation proves unemployment figures are a lie.......end of work is coming!

[zhmapper]

for every guy replaced by a robot, another guy will be needed to design, build, program, and service the robots.

[salemcripple]

@zhmapper @zhmapper Not necessarily. If you think about it. it takes roughly one person to design it. They CAN be built by other robots (only a matter of time till they are). Only one to program, And it only takes one person to service several robots. So that's three jobs to replace many. And that's assuming that two of the people replaced are smart enough to design, engineer, and program some of the most technical machines to date. Sorry to say, but some people just aren't that smart.

[salemcripple]

@salemcripple pt2: And who's to say that they WANT to sit in front of a computer in a cramped cubicle in the dead center of an office building all day. To some of us that sounds more like torture than a job.

[deluxedookie]

@salemcripple

if robot take over the economy will be shit since no one will be able to buy anything. then the business will fall.

[salemcripple]

@deluxedookie exactly!

[Logixmaster]

@zhmapper but you don't need one guy for every robot... one guy can maintain a set of robots, so there actually is just a bit lower employment of humans.

[nitinkumar29]

@zhmapper No, several robots are programmed and maintained by a single guy!

[mrKoncpom]

@zhmapper Plus, every robot, apart from programming is tweaked: in essence it's every movement is being "taught" or the machine "records" the moves of the master assembler.

[fertilizerspike]

@zhmapper

Wrong. Once the robot is designed it can replace any number of "guys". This is what we should be striving for, fully automated production, and a life of liesure and comfort for all. Who are we paying for those cars, the fucking robots? Wake the fuck up, people, the monetary system is anochronistic and primitive, we can do better.

[MegaAstrodude]

@fertilizerspike,

The biggest problem is the logistical catastrophe of a flaw. When one flaw in the line occurs, a human could use his more general intelligence to think outside the box to keep the line moving, but a robotic line isn't going to keep the line moving resulting in massive pileups and the counter-productive loss of millions of dollars.

[fertilizerspike]

@MegaAstrodude

Humans aren't more intelligent than intelligently designed robots. In fact humans are facile and stupid and extremely prone to error. It's also much easier to teach a robot than to teach a human. Your point is fallacious and banal. Money is worthless, a "loss of millions of dollars" is meaningless.

Oh, also, eat my ass, you fucking troll.

[MegaAstrodude]

@fertilizerspike,

The biggest problem is the logistical catastrophe of a flaw. When one flaw in the line occurs, a human could use his more general intelligence to think outside the box to keep the line moving, but a robotic line isn't going to keep the line moving resulting in massive pileups and the counter-productive loss of millions of dollars. 

[fertilizerspike]

@MegaAstrodude

The biggest problem here is you're a fucking idiot. This isn't the nineteenth century. Automation is the only way human beings can enjoy a high and sustainable standard of living. Human labor is utterly insufficient to match the production necessary.

[MegaAstrodude]

@fertilizerspike,

Another interesting issue is the capital investment required when weighed against the prospect of more efficient equipment becoming available before the overhead debt is covered. If you borrow 3 billion to automate to compete with China, China may automate later on with cheaper equipment and you'd be too in debt to respond.

This is what happened with Solyndra in solar cell assembly. You need flexible automation.

[fertilizerspike]

@MegaAstrodude

Capital is irrelevant. Money is a superluous sociopolitical phenomenon, I'm talking about automating labor to liberate humans from doing it. In addition we need to abandon the labor-for-income paradigm. The human labor input into the economy is virtually nil already compared to the work done by machines, the price system is obsolete. Your apparent belief that money is relevant cripples you and others mentally. It's no wonder the world is a giant shit hole.

[MegaAstrodude]

@fertilizerspike,

Do you really think money is superfluous? If so, please automate my factory for free. 

[fertilizerspike]

@MegaAstrodude

Yes, I do think it's superfluous. I can't automate your factory, however, I don't have the resources to do so. Resources are what's important, not money. Money is an imaginary game that has nothing to do with tangible reality. In a sense it's exactly like voodoo. It only works on you if you believe in it. And you've apparently missed the entire point, which is that we can do all these things WITHOUT MONEY. Idiot.

[MegaAstrodude]

@fertilizerspike,

Then go get the resources because you shouldn't need money. Until you can do that and build the factory for free, you need money. It's value is quite tangible and changes all of the time, just look of the price of gold.  With it, you can have a universal medium for trade.

[fertilizerspike]

@MegaAstrodude

You're right, I shouldn't need money to get resources, but because the world is full of brainwashed diskshits like you who fell for the idea that nothing can be done without money, I can't get you the resources that you want. Money's value is imaginary, it's the exact opposite of tangible. Trade is an anachronistic and vile notion that's thousands of years old. It arose from scarcity and has been perpetuated as a tool of control. Come join us in the twenty-first century.

[fertilizerspike]

@MegaAstrodude

As for gold, you say "look at the price of gold", suggesting that because gold has a "price" that therefore money has value. Are you really this fucking stupid? Think about this shit for two seconds before you just blurt it out. What am I saying, if you were capable of actual thought we wouldn't be having this conversation. Carry on as you were, zombie slave.

[One3teen]

We'll all have jobs servicing the robots that took our jobs.

[fertilizerspike]

@One3teen

What a retarded idea. Already we have machines that maintain themselves or other machines. There's no reason this aspect of the economy (maintenance of machines) should not be delegated also to machines. Unless you'd rather be a slave to a machine simply because you want money to pay the machines that are building everything you need. Get a grip, moron.

[emforty2]

must be lonely for a human working in that factory they only show one guy

[FGX318]

Actually they were two ! You didn't mention the cameraman !

[shyamvk]

the calibration frequency check of the robotics would be a nightmare and from the looks of it, flexibility of product line will be also be restricted in terms of tool changeover time being high (my assumption, could be wrong)

[ansarnisar]

calibration check is not a problem at all.Robots are programmed to calibrate every few cycle.i have worked in a similar setup as a technical team member.

[2008koss]

... it may be an ABB promotional, but when ot gets to final measurement by vision, the factory uses KUKA robots, not ABB !...

[rayuh87]

THIS IS VALLADOLID(Spain) ^^

[metalkanin]

Where's the rest? ... seats, panelling, engine, transmission, wheels... this vid only shows half a car... cool nonetheless

[hiace24]

It's a promo vid for ABB the robotics company

[yunayuna69]

wow... this is gonna help so much... thx it was cool ^^

[camui87]

one TINY inch of wrong placement can fuck up the whole assembly line

[runescapecat454]

I wonder what it takes to build the robots them selves. Must be interesting

[fn132788]

direct answer: robots and humans.

Q: Who does the research and development?

A: Humans

Q: Who teaches the robots what to do (programming)?

A: Humans

Q: Who repairs and maintains the robots?

A: Humans

Q: What was the function of the single person in the video?

A: final check

[nickp1987]

In other words, robots do all the monotonous and repetitive crap and people do the interesting stuff. Cool.

[Laserlight30]

And whats your point?

You have made no point whatsoever..

[tinramm]

neither have you.

[fertilizerspike]

@fn132788 asked:

"Q: Who does the research and development?"

Machines (computers, lathes, presses, etcetera) do over 99% of the actual work.

"Q: Who teaches the robots what to do (programming)?"

You only have to teach it once, then the robot can do it essentially forever.

"Q: Who repairs and maintains the robots?"

Again, machines do over 99% of the work.

"Q: What was the function of the single person in the video?"

Collect a paycheck basically guarding the status quo of labor-for-income

[noimadfritz]

i wanted to see the whole thing like wheel assembly and all good video though. its amazing to see the robuts work like that. makes me a bit scared though. what if the can reproduce themselves. then where do we come in. cause actually we are on our way out of manufacturing. i saw at least 12 robots and just 1 human. and what he did is nothing compared to what all the robots did. he put a piece of paper on the car and wiped off something off it, ha , how challenging. SCAREY

[ductonius]

There are no 'job losses' to robots. With cheaper products demand for manufactured goods increases. This demand increases trade which in turn creates more, higher paying, less strenuous jobs for people.

Sure, there may be local and specific job losses, but the expansion of the economy will create a new job for every one of those people.

[nickp1987]

Continuing from before (stupid word limit...):

I guess I'm just trying to say that while seeing someone loose their job to a machine provokes a strong emotional response, it probably makes no difference in the long run. Who still cares these days about the textile workers who lost jobs to the auto looms?

[nickp1987]

Ultimately, the entire discussion of whether it's good or bad to replace workers with machines reminds me of a story:

There are two friends who are seeing a bulldozer for the first time in their lives.

The first says to the other, "Oh, this is horrible! It will put one hundred men with shovels out of work!"

To which the other replies, "Yes, or ten thousand men with teaspoons."

[antoineledingue]

very nice! i was here for the installation...

thank you for you vidéo, you could show mine, (flexframer,etc...)

[alexshepherd]

Nice video!

You may be interested to see a similar process in use about 20 years ago - do a search for "making the 164". The technology has been around for a while and undoubtedly provides a better kind of employment - think how many people are needed to set those systems up... think of the work-related injury reduction... -Alex

[Givusabrake]

The french cant find workers smart enough to work in the factory (except for one or two imported islamics) so they bought the robots from intelligent countries to do the donkey work.

[PlayaX01]

it didnt even finish showing everything

[jvc2410]

look at the Trabant Factory (in youtube too) and decide what system you want to live and work.

a lot of people decide for Hugo Chavez, mostly lazy to study or work, and want to live free thanks to expensive oil or other resource...even it disappear and then...I know: to guilt West of their poverty.

what a big idea!!! ¡¡¡Grande Chavez!!!

[cherryrockel]

I am looking for Job, as Production Manager, Purchaser, Develper Manager.

Have you any openning for me at your Plant site

[sp3cs]

did you not see the sign the robot was holding up outside the plant? it say 'no workers needed!' :)))

[sp3cs]

i dont 'love' porno type music... cool robots though...

[yorkstem]

Robots are taking over!!!!!!

[kiwijak]

despite the job losses - this is a marvel precision of technology.

consider the nuts and bolts computer work done to make this possible

[Russ641]

so groovy!

[goonie50]

hope they don't commit suicide

[ultrafluke]

what thouse signs really means are that "people, you have become obsolete". Not even Chinamen slave wages can compete with these "workers" ;)

boom salecta

[jp2175]

do those signs everywhere say "no people"?