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Originally Posted by big gear head
It's hard for the average person to appreciate the amount of work that goes into everything that we come in contact with every day. Just like your work, when someone gets in their car they have no idea how much work went into every little piece of it. I've been building tooling to manufacture jet engine hot zone compressor parts for about 14 years now and the amount of tooling that goes into making just one part is impressive. Until you have been able to see what it takes to make something you just can't understand the amount of work that goes into something like that. The number molds and dies that are required to make something as complex as a car is unbelievable, and there is a lot of work that goes into making each one of those molds and dies.
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GM doesn't make it any easier, either.
Imagine doing what you do, but the production tools are owned by another division of the company (ie, Metal Fab) and are currently pumping out production. So you have to make prototype tools to run your special parts, and make your tools so they can be integrated in and out of the production tools (because you are going to be jumping back and forth between proto and production during the development phase). Then you'll need to manage the production change over when that time comes.
Which doesn't sound too bad - except - you are building 2017 mule vehicles in stationary stalls at the Tech Center, plus the aforementioned 2016 Integration builds at Wentzville, plus 2015 saleable builds somewhere else, plus launching production at multiple plants for the 2013 model year, plus supporting current production (2012 and older).
Which is still manageable (mostly) - except - not only are you doing this for Full Size Vans, but your
real job is for Full Size pickup and Suburban as well.
That will keep a person hopping.
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