TV Heads Up; Building Cars Live BBC2 7:30 tonight

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:20 am

Just spotted this as above - looks like it could be quite interesting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033zflq

Post by **campbell** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:55 am

Good spot. Ta!

Mr Momo · Post by **Mr Momo** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:49 pm

How the hell did Kate f'ing Humble get invited to do this. She really must have someone looking out for her in high places in the Beeb

BigD · Post by **BigD** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 7:13 pm

Mr Momo wrote:How the hell did Kate f'ing Humble get invited to do this. She really must have someone looking out for her in high places in the Beeb

What's wrong with her? She was quite good on lambing live and spring watch.

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 7:31 pm

BigD wrote:
Mr Momo wrote:How the hell did Kate f'ing Humble get invited to do this. She really must have someone looking out for her in high places in the Beeb
What's wrong with her? She was quite good on lambing live and spring watch.

And she was pure gold on Top Gear

j2 lot · Post by **j2 lot** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:23 pm

Fascinating stuff & way more computerised than I imagined. In my mind they would make cars in colour / spec batches

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:29 pm

I did think that minis are over priced. Watching this, it is amazing how much goes into making each one. Now I think they are a bargain!...

Stu160 · Post by **Stu160** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:41 pm

And May has just scrapped a Mini tailgate...

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:00 pm

Not watched it yet, but look forward to seeing it as a few years back I worked in the IBC (Isuzu Bedford Corporation) factory in Luton, next door to the Vauxhall factory, on the Vauxhall Vivaro line (also the Opel/Renault/Nissan equivalents). The set up was an exact replication of the line in northern Spain.

The bit which amazed me most was robots using microswitches and sensors to identify the huge permutations in doors/panels etc (think split rear doors, boot type doors, windows/no windows, short/med/long wheelbase, standard/midi/high roof, etc

)

An Italian company called Comau were the programmers and they would flounce about like they owned the joint

tenkfeet · Post by **tenkfeet** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:19 pm

Pity they did not do a full program on Morgan.

Presenter quote " James May there showing any idiot cant fit parts to a robot". Way to make the operatives, colleagues, associates or whatever the touchy feeling way of saying workers is feel good.

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:23 pm

tenkfeet wrote:Pity they did not do a full program on Morgan.

Presenter quote " James May there showing any idiot cant fit parts to a robot". Way to make the operatives, colleagues, associates or whatever the touchy feeling way of saying workers is feel good.

They got their own back when it came to the boot lid.

The "just in time " parts supply is mighty impressive.

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:44 pm

Having done lots of lean, 5S, SMED, 101 acronyms, etc I found it kind of meh. Their expediting looked good and it was interesting to see they ran with 2h of downtime.

Mr Momo · Post by **Mr Momo** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:11 pm

Impressive overall advert for UK manufacturing & technology

Can we export Kate f'ing Humble on the back of a transporter ?

robin · Post by **robin** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:03 am

Reminds me of the not the nine o'clock news sketch ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU-tuY0Z7nQ

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:32 am

Classic.......

Unfortunately it lists all the other sketches down the right hand side, which means that I will be even later out of bed than usual.

tut

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