Adventures of a giant in a tiny car factory

Last week we went to go visit the Mini Cooper plant in Oxford. Its the only one that exists in the world. They can produce 950 cars per day, finishing one about every 66 seconds. It is an extremely customized system which makes it even more impressive. No car is made until a specific order has been placed and they all are produced on the same line. A convertible could be produced right in front of an extended cab model with steering wheels on different sides depending what country the car is going to. They run at about 85% efficiency on all their machines, which if you were in business school you would know was pretty good. There were crazy robots everywhere, the company went from around 26,000 employees to about 3,000 after the investment in 650 robots. The robots were shooting sparks everywhere but Terry, our tour guide, told us they wouldnt hurt anyone. Scary that they can replace humans on a scale that large!

The plant was super top secret so these are the only pictures i could obtain.....