29-03-2012, 05:07pm
Well we did the factory visit today and first of all have to thank Danielle and Terry for their efforts.
What an experience, if your into that kind of thing of course.
Coming from a logistics (supply in old terms) background it was fascinating, organised chaos or maybe that should read fork lift ballet.
On our way to the factory, there were Evoques and Freelanders parked in every available inch of space going, it's makes you wonder if the transporters can keep up with it, and the rail carriages were being continuously being loaded up.
Whatever, to see sheet metal become body panels and then watching the robots dancing away with their panels which are turned into body shells was great.
Then you go to the final trim side with all the assembly workforce beavering away, it is brilliant.
Despite Danielle's efforts we didn't get to see our car, it no longer exists on the factory build system, so it is somewhere else either awaiting a transporter or on a transporter.
As I've said before it is not everyone's cup of tea, but we enjoyed it and that's another mystery unravelled.
There were much more LHDs in the build mix compared to RHDs, which is to be expected I suppose.
What an experience, if your into that kind of thing of course.
Coming from a logistics (supply in old terms) background it was fascinating, organised chaos or maybe that should read fork lift ballet.
On our way to the factory, there were Evoques and Freelanders parked in every available inch of space going, it's makes you wonder if the transporters can keep up with it, and the rail carriages were being continuously being loaded up.
Whatever, to see sheet metal become body panels and then watching the robots dancing away with their panels which are turned into body shells was great.
Then you go to the final trim side with all the assembly workforce beavering away, it is brilliant.
Despite Danielle's efforts we didn't get to see our car, it no longer exists on the factory build system, so it is somewhere else either awaiting a transporter or on a transporter.
As I've said before it is not everyone's cup of tea, but we enjoyed it and that's another mystery unravelled.
There were much more LHDs in the build mix compared to RHDs, which is to be expected I suppose.