In late 2016 Musk set about converting an old GM / Toyota factory in Fremont, California into Tesla assembly facility. They invested in developing in-house robotics capabilities by acquiring two automation companies, Grohmann & Perbix. Tesla purchased over 1,000 robots including 6-axis arms from Kuka and Fanuc and automated guided vehicles from Omron. They applied them across the process tackling relatively routine tasks such as welding or painting through to entirely novel tasks like wire harness assembly. By April 2018, everything was not going to plan. The company was far behind schedule, only producing an average of 2000 cars/week and haemorrhaging $100 million dollars a week. The period was described as “Production Hell”. But Tesla stabilized the process.
https://www.wevolver.com/article/how-tesla-used-robotics-to-survive-production-hell-and-became-the-worlds-most-advanced-car-manufacturer
https://www.themachinemaker.com/technologies/doug-walker-industrial-robots-2312
Yearwise Bibliography
2016
https://electrek.co/2016/07/31/tesla-gigafactory-robots-machines-battery-factory/
https://electrek.co/2016/09/01/tesla-model-3-robot-supplier-bring-up-production-line-time/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0P1Ikyz8To
https://partsolutions.com/innovative-engineering-how-a-tesla-model-s-is-made/
https://nypost.com/2016/11/08/tesla-acquires-robots-company-to-accelerate-car-production/
https://openhumanitiespress.org/feedback/science-technology/teslas-model-3-as-ikon-of-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/
https://archive.curbed.com/2016/7/29/12326402/gigafactory-manufacturing-robotics-technology
https://www.manufacturingtomorrow.com/article/2016/07/what-super-efficient-manufacturing-looks-like/8262
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2016/11/08/tesla-buying-germanys-grohmann-engineering-to-automate-accelerate-production/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-planning-build-futuristic-gigafactory-185200816.html
https://www.engadget.com/2016-08-06-six-tesla-inventions.html
2017
https://electrek.co/2017/04/25/tesla-model-3-robot-production-line-pictures/
https://electrek.co/2017/07/07/tesla-model-3-production-line/
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/04/27/tesla-army-kuka-robots-waiting-installed-model-3-assembly-line/
https://futurism.com/leaked-photos-from-tesla-show-the-alien-robots-that-will-build-model-3s
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/teslas-model-3-production-hell-is-testing-elon-musks-fix-as-you-go-carmaking-model/
https://loupfunds.com/teslas-bedrock-in-ai-robotics-will-transform-the-industry-our-lives/
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-buying-perbix-automated-manufacturing-2017-11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZDBCpwk83A
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-assembling-robot-army-10314578
https://monroeengineering.com/blog/tesla-acquires-manufacturing-robot-supplier-perbix/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/11/03/sleepless-nights-broken-robots-and-mounting-pressure-musk-offers-rare-glimpse-inside-teslas-production-hell/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-robot-software-will-make-tesla-worth-as-much-as-apple-2017-05-04
https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/robots-will-help-tesla-catch-up-to-apple-in-value-elon-musk-story-5Yu5DFQbS55SMZ3WLPLMfM.html
Tesla-made-only-260-model-3-cars-in-q3-but-is-confident-it-can-fix-bottleneck/
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/02/tesla-made-only-260-model-3-cars-in-q3-but-is-confident-it-can-fix-bottleneck/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/07/magazine/tech-design-future-autonomous-cars-factory-tesla-sustainability-gigafactory.html
https://hbr.org/2017/08/is-tesla-really-a-disruptor-and-why-the-answer-matters
https://www.ien.com/automation/video/20978879/tesla-reportedly-forced-to-make-parts-by-hand
https://insights.globalspec.com/article/4788/what-is-the-real-cost-of-an-industrial-robot-arm
https://one.oecd.org/document/DSTI/CIIE(2017)14/en/pdf
https://interestingengineering.com/video/drone-footage-of-teslas-fremont-factory-shows-new-buildings-for-increased-model-3-production
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15342218/teslas-musk-brags-on-model-3-gives-more-details-on-model-y-and-semi/
https://wccftech.com/terrifying-robotic-charger-tesla-model/
2018
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/13/17234296/tesla-model-3-robots-production-hell-elon-musk
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/16/elon-musk-humans-robots-slow-down-tesla-model-3-production
https://electrek.co/2018/05/13/tesla-hackathon-robots-model-3-production/
https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/elon-musk-s-alien-dreadnought-an-insider-s-view-of-tesla-s-model-3-factory-118060900902_1.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrAIQ_YZ_i4
https://interestingengineering.com/video/these-are-the-robots-making-your-tesla-s-vehicles
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-paint-shop-robot-applicator/
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/04/17/67012/tesla-shuts-down-model-3-production-to-improve-automation/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/tesla-model-3-sedan-automation-robots-manufacturing-delay-1.4734829
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/business/tesla-factory-musk.html
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Touring-Tesla-s-Model-3-production-line-the-13089341.php
https://qz.com/1294282/the-tesla-model-3-cost-28000-to-build-german-engineers-say-and-it-still-may-not-be-profitable/
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/18/tesla-2018-video-celebrating-workers-robots-speed/
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/30/automating-intelligently-is-teslas-manufacturing-advantage/
2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/05/elon-musk-wasnt-wrong-about-automating-the-model-3-assembly-line-he-was-just-ahead-of-his-time/
https://electrek.co/2019/07/22/tesla-revolutionary-wiring-architecture-robots-model-y/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-gigafactory-germany-strategy-idUSKBN1XO0LO
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/6287639/8600701/08902005.pdf
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/03/01/tesla-safety-violations-dwarf-big-us-auto-plants-in-aftermath-of-musks-model-3-push/
2020
https://electrek.co/2020/05/20/tesla-installs-production-robots-fremont-factory/
https://insideevs.com/news/408546/tesla-gigafactory-3-official-high-automation/
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-has-struggled-with-robots-breaking-down-at-car-factory-2020-3
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/why-amazon-warehouses-tesla-auto-plants-will-not-go-100percent-robot.html
https://www.torquenews.com/11826/elon-musk-says-tesla-s-production-lines-already-over-75-percent-automated
https://www.icmrindia.org/casestudies/catalogue/IT%20and%20Systems/ITSY104.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHo1PYV3OzY
https://cynlr.com/healing-manufacturings-trillion-dollar-migraine-part-1/
https://medium.com/@ashleylobo98/a-case-study-on-tesla-the-worlds-most-exciting-automobile-company-535fe9dafd30
2021
https://streetfins.com/inside-teslas-crazy-ai-manufacturing-revolution/
https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/cars/watch-robots-painting-tesla-cars-at-shanghai-gigafactory-41635922068352.html
https://www.iqsdirectory.com/resources/teslas-big-problem-excessive-automation/
https://techstory.in/teslas-new-automation-set-up-with-comau-robotics-equipment/
https://www.designnews.com/automotive-engineering/teslas-switch-giga-press-die-castings-model-3-eliminates-370-parts
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-manufacturing-stellantis-owned-comau-robotics-new-automation-fremont-factory/
2022
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/giga-casting-and-robots-how-volkswagens-trinity-aims-to-catch-up-with-tesla/article65280747.ece
https://www.programatium.com/what-percentage-of-tesla-manufacturing-is-done-by-robotics/
https://www.autodaily.com.au/how-car-manufacturing-is-changing-for-evs/
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/04/11/inside-giga-texas-the-machine-that-builds-the-machine/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tesla-4680-battery
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2022/04/07/elon-musk-opens-teslas-giga-texas-that--he-says-is-the-biggest-us-plant/
https://www.clarify.io/learn/industry-5-0
https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-tsla-stock-cyber-rodeo-51649321149
Tesla Model 3 at $25K
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/06/improved-lfp-batteries-will-make-a-25k-tesla-model-3-in-2026.html
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