Richard's Inside Look at the World's Largest Car Factory | Richard Hammond's Big

this is the biggest car factory in the world located in Wolfsburg Germany it covers an area of six and a half million square meters making it over three times the size of Monaco this factory is so big it can produce eight hundred thousand cars a year that's three thousand six hundred every day or a new car every 16 seconds that means since I started telling you this bit another new car has rolled off its production lines today you simply could you turn out a car every 16 seconds without robots lending a half or more in this factory they have a 4200 strong mechanized army to assemble the cars with ruthless efficiency and these workers never clock in late or calling sick my grandfather works in the car industry and mourners in Birmingham where they built cars by hand out of metal wood and leather I don't know why he'd make of this I think it'd be absolutely fascinated and loving oh it's a cry she took me out of a job it's amazing [Music] don't worry granddad the robots haven't completely taken over there are still 63 thousand people in this factory doing the jobs that robots can't unlike at Rotterdam ports the future is for humans and a new generation of robot to work together side by side and at the factories smart production lab Marcus and Johannes are introducing me to the latest member of their workforce Marcus right Yanis nice to meet you oh it says do you also want to shake Merkel said this is Merkel what just yeah hello hey the arms all sort of floppy there's some resistance but he obviously likes you okay Mirko is an acronym for mobile intelligent robotic coworker so we are trying to assist the human worker and the factory Mirko can hand over tools to you or workpieces the only stuff we can do now with me vocals up for a game for rock-paper-scissors that we bring his arm into position that's a proper terminator okay that is he very strong who just presses a hand from the front and then he will react to it well if he reacts by punching me in the throat all right I said we were no paper scissors he wins yeah yep he wins Sid Palin before we look down on the production line there is somebody with their head in the car going wrench and a robot just goes hey go go thank you three to four years to be on production ready so the future is not just robotic it's humans and robots - yeah yeah hybrid team of humans and robots so Richard you and Merkel you've both really quite the job so in order to celebrate move into his arms and then we closest to what if you like move into it out we call this hugging okay Xion hugging mode or crushing to death now I Whitworth find out what we do yeah oh very gentle Oh read about robots like this on the internet okay his possessive is NEPA so sunburned there's no doubt that intelligent automation is the future for big engineering without robots our world would be well it would be smaller thanks to a brilliant blend of machine and man the giant Volkswagen Factory in Germany is able to churn out one car every 16 seconds so any when you see the assembly line close up for the first time do you really appreciate how big have complex this operation is thousands of jobs to be coordinated and orchestrated the twenty thousand humans on the assembly line have made themselves as efficient as the robots they work alongside by upgrading their tools in ingenious ways I want to go on one of these that is the thing for me the magic chair this floating chair was specially designed to help workers move quickly and effortlessly in and out of the vehicle they're building but I'm not allowed anywhere near the production line until I've had a tutorial with Adrian in the training lab this chair you see here is one of our economic chairs it's basically to help you find a economic position in the car without having to lean over and get back problems have yourself a seat I'm having st. now you see this seat is too high right you got to have your feet onto the ground you could have broken that to me more gently yeah I can't reach the ground right this is where the joystick comes in handy move it up that's worse or down it's barely off the ground is it right let me get it down a bit more now you can pull yourself towards the car and once you've reached the car feet forward feet forward pull yourself in is that gonna clear the car and now we see when the seat is too low shorter worker it's a problem right there so that's why we got to lift you up a bit okay so you can pull yourself watch your head - up inside the car I'm in the car and now found the perfect position to reach the belt operating the custom-made chair is a skill in itself and once workers have maneuvered themselves into the car they have 60 seconds to install a seat belt how hard can it be ready set yeah go feet forward spent mine head into the car into the car and around spinning ran now got this that doesn't go that way around it goes this way ran okay yep I'll keep going so the people next to me on the line up presume by now might be getting a bit they're gonna be working on your nerves right and then towards the bottom thank God it was undoing not doing stopped the clock but you're still in the car you got to get out the car first all right that's when your job is done oh let my tool in there is that bad yeah okay obviously I remember this normally and exact and I need to clear the field for the next person work um stop the clock three minutes and 14 seconds I think I might need to find a simpler job excluding me people still have a vital role in big manufacturing without them this factory wouldn't be able to produce eight hundred thousand cars a year you

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Length: 7min 19sec (439 seconds)

Published: Wed May 06 2020