Delivery Time

[bunna]

that's 23 consecutive business hours. Its the average time it takes for a unit to go from sheetmetal parts to complete car driving through the shipping gate.

23 hours is not small at all - some B cars made in asian countries have 12 hour averages!

Basically its just under 1 business day in Body, 1 in Paint, and 1 in Trim/Final Assembly (with travel/processing times and end of line quality checks making up any difference). Although the I think the 23 hour figure was prior to the last line speed drop.

Edited 30/12/09 02:09 AM by bunna

[Joe5619]

Why does it take an average of 5 weeks from order to delievery if it only takes them 3 (4 at tops) to make?? They must be some reason why it takes 5 weeks? Is it more just the lead time needed from all parties that make up this 5 week wait?

[bunna]

At the moment its because everything in that 3-4 week period is already committed (we're effectively running 4 weeks behind orders). Simple supply and demand - we reduced our line speed late last year, had down days and all the rest. Now we haven't had a down day since May, we've had a production saturday, etc, so demand is up, but we're keeping on the right side of the curve.

This allows far more stability in the schedule as you can imagine - people pulling out, changing options, etc. Having a "buffer" allows far more flexibility. Also, we don't just click fingers and have everything on line at the right time to build the right car - so there's a heck of a lot of logistics involved, and the more time the better in that case.

Finally, having such a buffer allows the build schedule to be manipulated more easily. We build all models on the same line, and if you can imagine there may be more tasks required of an operator when building a Territory than say a ute, and if there are too many territories close together he/she will fall behind and quality will suffer. Mechanical facilities are also affected for various reasons. Therefore the model sequence is very carefully structured to make sure the plant can actually achieve it!

Oh and there's probably a bunch of other reasons that are beyond my scope

Edited 30/12/09 02:45 AM by bunna

[Joe5619]

Thanks for the info Bunna.. I find that stuff very interesting, I'd love to see the whole thing in action!!

All I know is they did a very nice job building my one :)