Putting some numbers on things

mark_n · 22-10-2011 07:49am

Evoques and Freelanders are built on the same line, so every Freelander is displacing one possible Evoque.

That 70 second time slot really piles on the pressure. I saw, for example, that one person has time to fit the front seat belt and place the seat in the car but not time to bolt it in place which is done by the next station. Someone will have decided whether connecting the seat to the car's electrical system is done by the first or second station, it's as fine tuned as that.

Segmenting the build into such small operations must be a challenge and must offer limiting returns as the interval gets less and less. Pity the people doing the doors as well where a door has to fitted out every 20 seconds.

berlin2011 · 22-10-2011 07:58am

(22-10-2011 06:47am)mk82 Wrote: I cannot beliieve, that there are so many Evoques per houer. Is it sure that the VINs are following numbers? Think about if they use 2 ore 5 steps counting?

Nope - consecutive - see the following three numbers (all these cars were built on 20 Sept). You can verify that by entering them on Topix.

SALVP2BG9CH611618
SALVP1BG8CH611619
SALVP2BG7CH611620

mark_n · 22-10-2011 08:02am

Interesting how the maker ID turned out to be SAL for Land Rover...

Acwats · 22-10-2011 08:40am

To help assess recent progress, Mine is 6189xx built on 18th Oct.

berlin2011 · 22-10-2011 09:00am

(22-10-2011 08:40am)Acwats Wrote: To help assess recent progress, Mine is 6189xx built on 18th Oct.

So another 4k cars built till Oct 18 - that's a slowdown to ±210/day for Oct….

mark_n · 22-10-2011 09:19am

I think we need a graph of estimated Evoke production over time...

Acwats · 22-10-2011 09:31am

If those who have cars built use Topix you can get the build date. If enough data gets posted here like i did earlier in the thread I'm sure somebody will knock up a graph. I'll have a go but not near a pc until middle of next week

JiiPee · 22-10-2011 10:15am

Mine was built in Oct 11 and the VIN no. is 617xxx.

**XFullFatTim** · 22-10-2011 11:37am

Mine was built on Aug 19th and no. 6060??

PhilSkill · 23-10-2011 06:55pm

Ok I had to do it...

So the ramping in of the production does seem to have taken a knock in August and although steady now has not been increasing in rate much.

If anyone else wants to post their VIN and Build date (leave the last 2 digits as XX) i'll add them in to get a better picture.