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Toyota showed a plant without a conveyor, which will dramatically reduce assembly costs
Toyota invited journalists to the Motomachi plant, which is the company’s largest and oldest enterprise. Engineers here are developing what they call a self-propelled assembly line.
The idea is that electric cars won’t fill factories with harmful fumes and endanger workers. At the same time, they will be able to independently control production as soon as they have an engine and a set of wheels. A simple remote control device connected to multiple surveillance cameras will guide each vehicle through the plant, eliminating the need for industrial conveyor belts.
Toyota says this will reduce initial plant investment and increase the flexibility of assembly lines when they need to be adjusted or a new model introduced. According to Hindustantimes, during the presentation, nine different models, including sedans, minivans, electric cars and police cars, were assembled on one mixed production line. Roller platforms with built-in tools allow each worker to quickly move from one machine to another.
This process has been developed over decades as part of the Toyota Production System doctrine, which emphasizes functionality and condemns waste, but above all strives for incremental improvement in any process to improve the final product.
Assembly-less production is intended to be primarily used in the assembly of new generation electric vehicles, which will occupy an increasingly prominent place in the Toyota Motor line-up. This should dramatically reduce the cost of assembling an electric vehicle and greatly reduce the time required for its production.
Tablets
The world’s thinnest and lightest large tablet: sales of Huawei MatePad Pro with an OLED screen have started in China
Huawei has announced the start of open sales of the latest flagship tablet, Huawei MatePad Pro, which has become a pioneer in several respects.
The first region where you can buy Huawei MatePad Pro is China. Users are offered the following variations:
- Huawei MatePad Pro with 12 GB RAM and 256 GB flash memory – $711
- Huawei MatePad Pro with 12 GB RAM and 512 GB flash memory – $779
- Huawei MatePad Pro with 12 GB RAM and 1 TB flash memory – $916
- Huawei MatePad Pro with 16 GB RAM and 1 TB flash memory – $957
- Huawei MatePad Pro with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of flash memory, stylus and keyboard – $1,135
The 13.2-inch gadget is positioned as the world’s thinnest and lightest large tablet with an edge-to-edge screen. It weighs 580 grams, is 5.5mm thick, has a screen frame that’s just 3.4mm wide, and takes up 94% of the front panel area.
The tablet is equipped with an OLED screen with a resolution of 2880 × 1920 pixels and an image refresh rate of 144 Hz. The hardware basis was the Kirin 9000s platform, as in the Mate 60 series smartphones. Also among the characteristics are a front camera (16 MP and 3D ToF), a main camera (13 and 8 MP), six speakers (two high-frequency and four low-frequency), a battery with a capacity of 10 100 mAh with support for 88 W charging and HarmonyOS 4 operating system.
Everything is gearing up for the start of sales of Moskvich 6: the plant has already started talking about the new product in its Telegram channel. The last message talks about power units.
There will be two of them: in the base – a 136-horsepower turbo engine (with a torque of 200 Nm) paired with a CVT, in the top version – a 174-horsepower GDI engine (with a torque of 280 Nm) and a “robot” with two clutches wet type.
“The first version of the power unit is conducive to quiet trips with comfort, and the second is suitable for lovers of dynamic driving“, said Moskvich. It is also reported that the top-end engine has a direct injection engine, double phase control and increased performance turbocharging.
The problems in the IT systems of the German automaker Volkswagen have been resolved, and production at the company’s factories in Germany is resuming. This was reported by the Bild newspaper with reference to a representative of the automaker.
“The IT infrastructure problems on the Volkswagen network were resolved overnight and the network is operating reliably again,” a Volkswagen spokesman said on Thursday, September 28.
The global production network is up and running, affected factories are back online and production should proceed as planned. Individual systems may still be unstable during the transition phase. Volkswagen found no indication that external influences caused the failure.
Earlier it became known that an IT failure affected most of the Volkswagen group. A significant part of IT systems and production was affected. In some cases, conveyors stopped and email did not work. The problem also affected other brands of the group, including Audi.
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