...When I worked on the Tower production line building the U-152 frames for the Ford Explorer, most of the welding was done by robots just like those seen in the video. The humans simply fed parts into the production line, or made tack welds to allow the partial assemblies to continue to the robotic weld stations, and made the visual quality inspections...as the robots could lay down some pretty nice welds, but they couldn't tell if the weld was running out of the seam or not.
The assmebly line machinery was designed by Ford engineers, and Ford actually retained ownership rights to the tooling for one of the frame lines at Tower that became obsolete when a new model came out. So it's not like Ford is doing things THAT much differently here in the states; they just haven't integrated the subcontractors into the plants yet. But having subcontractors--even subcontractors with UAW workers--do the work? That part's old news.
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