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Toyota Car plant and its tours in SF Bay area have closed
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:
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