Nice video showing how the F-Type is manufactured. The sections on aluminium stamping, gluing and riveting is interesting....Jaguar has made a huge commitment to aluminum manufacturing.

Watch while you can, cos these videos often get taken down.

 

Very enjoyable - thanks for that post.

 

Very interesting! Thanks for posting it.

 

Cool...thanks for sharing!

 

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What do you guys think of the factory?
Based on some experience with manufacturing facilities and also from walking the BMW and MB factories, I would observe:

• Looks like they try to run a lean manufacturing line, but they still have a ways to go to completing lean transformation.
• Level of automation is much lower than MB/BMW. Major chassis pieces and interior placement are still assembled by hand. Same with drivetrain placement. They have a lot of room for improvement on quality. The use of hand clamps raises an eyebrow!
• I didn't see any outbound automated optical inspection or an inspection station next to the stamping line, which seems like kind of a quality risk. The aluminium panels are pretty thin so it's easy to run into problems with them downstream.....maybe another reason why folks have had panel issues.

But, I'm not a manufacturing guy per se, so it'd be interesting to hear from anyone who is.