Up From Clay - A Car is Born in 1959

today at this very moment in cities throughout the United States throughout the world thousands of people are taking delivery of General Motors automobiles no matter what car the new owner has chosen no matter what model no matter where he died he can sense that his car represents a manufacturing excellence never surpassed in our industry he can see it in the gleam of the finish he could feel a solid construction even in the top of the door he can see the chapel attention to detail quality fabric in the seats in late effects on the door long wearing carpeting on the floor he can see through safety play glass in all the windows new car owners can sense all these things in Chevrolet Pontiac Oldsmobile Buick or cataract for a finely important reason this hallmark of quality that tells every GM character that fist is a body by Fisher that's all mark is easy to take for granted because for years everyone inside and outside the corporation that come expect a GM body will be good people in Fisher body don't take it for granted they work it in all 33 pitcher plants day after day we get the week to make sure the bodies for General Motors car live up to the name body by pitcher every year a new worksite will is begun when the Board of Directors means to see the new styling proposals for the coming model year the approval of the clay models sets in motion the best activity of a huge organization and this Zelman is a story that complicated undertakes the story of people the facilities and the things required to bring efficient buying up from flight while this pilots are completing their drawings and models for the coming year he assured by the engineers a them frequent bits will acquaint themselves with the renderings and acclaim up and become familiar with the designs of car parks they've got soon manufacture by the browser in the highly competitive business of manufacturing automobiles time can be the final sales affect this early planning to shorten define twin styling and actual production sets of pace were asked an effort throughout all Fisher Body operations to cut lead time to the bone the body engineer is sharply aware of the relationship between styling and sales success but when he looks at the body I hear Easton is more than classic lines and graceful curve he sees the carbide that in addition determining the appearance of the car must also provide a great part of a structural strength he sees in embodied as an engineering challenge that literally must each instruction from the floor plan up more than 45-hundred part he must think of each of these parts in terms of the limitations of standing presence and welcome can be absorbed by steel and glass and of such things as structural strength and he must think of the early discussions with the stylist if Fisher engineer sufficient information for begin preliminary body and diet plan even before styling has prepared the styling drawings that will become the official go-ahead for Fisher body design engineering there is much to be done before the styling drawing is ready to meet the exacting purpose of a body by vision back after Fisher body engineering felt eight drawings must be made the soft strength clearances ending weatherstripping and the thousand other details that need not concern style but must concern the body engineer or here at Fisher body safety facility and comfort must be entered into the pencil lines and clay form to the south always with the weather eye on spot final after the more than 20,000 eliminated drawings required in an average model from all the information is put together on dimensionally stable metal drawing plate and the master body layouts are bought these like us but they're lyin so delicately precise they can hardly be photographed become the Bible for the planning testing and manufacturing for follow they are the fight for the Diane's native already work designing the dive that will form the steel into the new shape they are the viral for the production installation who are designing the processes and equipment the jig and effect Jesus demands reduce the new bottle they are the Bible or the craftsman in the woodshop who are bringing the lines to life in wood and they are the Bible for the classroom in the metal shop who are making metal body parts by hand and assembling them into prototype box bodies for early infernal choice by the Carthage and bodies or endless tests plants vast laboratory specimens of a sufficient body Steve's have been designed by some diabolical feet it stands on destroying all the hard work of the engineer well maybe there's some truth because it's minimal the testing is plant fruit engineers design how does it operate at minus twenty great dust penetrate the body seal even in the punishment must be answered by body sound it takes 95 profiling into shape the hundreds of small the design has been changes have been made Julie has been completed and now begins to arrive in the nine Fisher Body space in class perform service tablet touches the complete full effect with its structural support each welding machine makes 90 to 100 wealth just a fraction of more than 5500 well required and the average fish survival and then another inspection to be sure that the mentioned meat designs shipping dollars ready for the journey by rail to one of fishers of them replaced by more than this tremendous volume of this started in the world never leave specialized platforms yes because components as well as related bodies are now reaching their destination today basically designed duplicate every many times over by helping to reduce Wet'n'Wild and Fisher bodies cut and sew pointers nearly 40 million yards of boss Co the fabric required in an applic years for that are transformed in the seat covering and bed liners and door panels and all the other quality top trim and a post that enhances the interior of a picture box each with the same fisher attention to detail one new method of fabricating a serum utilizes that was the dialectic to meet the public new styling preference 19 giant specials use electricity will impress decorative effects on materials or permanently welcome fabric together with more versatility at a much lower cost than the formerly destroyed door pals are finally threatened on a merry-go-round combines the best balance in the journey to one official bodies assembly plant or to one of the obese the quality but it simply does not take chase automatic automatic devices move the floor pan down the production line trim and jigs and fixtures are invaluable aids in precision assembly but in the last analysis human a human mind the family operation is scheduled the complex and often on sonar that translates individual orders buyers throughout the world into figures that guide the men who assembly buck the maze of ordered form computers ballast ice in here on the line in a coded notation that's for the breakfast I read this is the red and white heartthrob Bill Brown or in part inspected first to make sure the windshield and back wide opening cleaning and rock group the bodies are ready for pain in this special moment the Danes will assemble lab the electrostatic cleaning process is being adapted divided affinity primer painting supplies by whirling this charge 100,000 volts tiny charged particles with paint why off the dick seeking the nerve graft to our body this technique makes you sir firstly 100% of the pain and body by fish more than three million bucks and body components commissioned by these plants to the very start nearly four million and in everyone in the car centric plants and in the beetle tea plants everybody is scheduled to be dropped on its own care 24 cases contain all the body and Tennessee bars for 24 GM automobile destined for assembly the General Motors plans to oversee and Rochelle from the nearby for the 14 p.m. assembly plant outside the United States we have shown you a few of the 80,000 people who team together to produce by Facebook we've shown you some of the 25 minutes for a feed of our planets and all and we've shown you somewhere more than 750 million dollars worth of affordance these facilities are currently at work for General Motors in a never ending track of the planning engineering testing to make sure the Fisher's coat will always signify a timeless quality of the only

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Keywords: Fisher Body, General Motors, GM, Chevrolet, '59 Chevrolet, Factory, auto assembly, auto testing, test track, auto history, Automobile (Industry), S145

Id: ACWMbeXd31s

Length: 30min 41sec (1841 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 07 2013