Gone are the days of “throwing it over the fence to manufacturing.”
The only way to hit timelines like this is to develop the factory and the vehicle concurrently. Product engineers have to be deeply involved in production, and production engineers need a real seat at the table during product...
The “production hell” will be very real. It’s an incredibly stressful period, but also an exciting one.
I was involved in the Model 3 production ramp as a manufacturing engineer, and while it was intense, the camaraderie inside the factory and the very public pressure to make it succeed were...