Quote:
Originally Posted by BigJohn
#3028 could have been built before #3021!!
VIN # does not match build the order.
|
This is true, a car can get pulled out of the production run for whatever reasons.
The last GM plant I worked at I was in the welding dept. I would stop the line, pull out a car on a wheeled dolly, close teh gate and start the line again.
That station was called "chisel check" I would take a 2 foot flat chisel and a ball peen hammer and start trying to break the spot welds. If you tore the metal it was "OK" if the weld broke it was "Not OK". After I beat on that car for about 1/2 an hour, I owuld go and relieve
every other member of my team for a bathroom/smoke break. My team leader would re-insert the car back into the line later on. This is just one example of how a build number can get out of order.
Depending on which spot welds broke, the next TPM schedule would be made up and enacted on Overtime. IIRC TPM=Total Preventative Maintenance.
Edit: I better finish my story. TPM is where I would "Lock out/Tag Out" at the mani power control for the long 200 ft run of about 50 robots. and using a common set of pliers, I would grasp the used tips of the spot welder robots , give them a twist and the tips would come off. Then grab a new tip on the spot welder and give it a whack and it would stay engaged using some sort of interference fit.
Welding was a preferred area and was much better than where I started which was right after where the bodies came down from from an overhead buffer and mated with the appropriate chassis. I installed the upper plenum and t-body/air intake. Then thye next guy flashed the PCM. Then then car would raise up and I had to get underneath and instal some rubber body mounts and tighten the body onto teh chassis, then get underneath and attch the clutch cable and adjust the clutch.
Unfortunatlley that assembly plant was built off of a sister plant in Japan, and I am 6 ft 4" and while "underneath" the car I had to spread my legs like a giraffe trying to drink.
Sure the money was awesome and I could have retired at 48(30 and out) but my back was
so happy to get out of there, I had a "call to duty" and I answered it.