Life in Balance: Amit Chaudhary’s Blog
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Toyota’s car plant in Fremont, CA (NUMMI) is closing or as per their website nummi.com, already closed.

What a shame. It had a great tour for everyone, where one saw the famed” Toyota Way(Link to Wikipedia)” at work including anyone stopping the assembly and a continuous line of trucks of South California every 30 minutes or so which included parts to be used in the next few hours, the JIT(Just In Time) assembly.

It had a right from Matrix kind of Robot section with machines welding and working on Car & Truck bodies at an amazing speed.

Here is a video from a very similar robot:

More information:

• Web Tour webpage from 2007 From Archive.org
• Edmunds.com story on the plant

Here is something I have used a few times. Yahoo Research has a TagMaps project, WorldExplorer which shows main tags for any place and pictures.
One can quickly decide what to visit in a place.

Here is an image which shows places in Santa Barbara

And here is an interactive Flash widget for Peru.

One of the researcher behind this is Mor Naaman

Try India and San Francisco, see if you can find Yoga in the Presidio or find out why Machu Pichcu does not show up in Peru.