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Gents How long do you reckon it would have taken to assemble a HG?? Would it have made any difference depending on which plant was building it? Lets say from the time thay started assembling the body till the day it rolled off the line. Was it hours, days or weeks?? Cheers Jeremy The G will roll again.... Edited by user Sunday, 4 April 2010 8:31:24 AM(UTC)
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This does vary from plant to plant. For example, Perth cars & many Brisbane cars had their bodies built at other plants (Adelaide or Sydney etc.) Then final assembly took place at the assembly plant.
If you count the welding of the floor panel as the starting point & driving out the door as the finishing point, I think the timeframe would be a few days for Dandenong, Pagewood & Elizabeth, where body building & assembly took place all under the one roof.
If you look at some sub-assemblies like instruments, engine, gearboxes, steering boxes etc. these could have been built in batches several months prior to vehicle production.
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Production is only 1 -2 days in most cases. Parts arrive on the "just in time" process, so the supplier of parts needed to know what they had to supply weeks in advance so they would deliver on the day, so for things like instruments, VDO would know next Thursday they needed to deliver so many 100mph speedos, so many 120s and so many 140s etc. The logistics was huge.
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OK - so just in time was around 40 years ago!!!
So late August components could have made themselves onto an 8/70 build car then.
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JIT is still used for Ford through uni drive and dana that supplies there shafts and rear axle, and also kenworth and mack volvo get deliveries of driveshafts and rear axle in the morning for the arvo shift, then late night delivery for next day. some of the stuff ups are shocking, hence so much "grey" area when it come to ehat actually was fitted to what car from factory at times
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We still use "jit" for the VE commodore etc,the dates for bigger parts now are alot closer than they were due to improvements of transport and logistics ,but generally its still the same.hard to pin point some time frames as in breakdowns /strikes/and production dramas..etc.but time period stuff is fairly easy to find and sometimes hard to pay for!lol
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This clip has been shown to me at uni about 10 times but still worth a watch to see what Ford Brazil is up to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pczGghB8MKg
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Yes in many cases a late August part would still be fitted to an August built car. In other cases, like 16.7:1 steering boxes, it seems the "supplier produced more than needed and they were stored for a period of time, with some unmolested cars having dates out by several months.
In many cases they are only a few days apart. The battery in my VZ was manufactured just 7 days before the car was manufactured.
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JIT is amazing.
I heard the head of ZF Australia interviewed on the radio and he said they get a signal direct from Holden when a body shell hits the assembly line and they then start making the rear axle assembly and need to have it to Holden within 2.5hrs!!
Amazing they had it the 70s too.
Thanks for your advice Warren too.
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JIT wasnt working to well when they built my HQ, original engine block was 6 months old by the time it made it into the car! Generally it is a good process providing everything is running smoothly, nearly put Boeing airlines out of business though when suppliers could not deliver and they had to pay fines for late delivery on their planes. IIRC Holden had quite a problem and shutdowns a few years ago with failure by a supplier to produce some kind of nut.
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