Daniel Whitford

Companies

Tesla

Date
August 30, 2023
Industry
Automotive
Problems Identified

- Bad order of operations on PFMEA results in expensive internal equipment modifications.

Role

Manufacturing Engineer

Summary

- Ford role not that interesting. - Tesla manufacturing engineers focus on NPI. - Process development engineer will handle step preparation, equipment validation, quality validation, and hitting KPIs (cycle time, yield, availability). Then pass to production engineering. - PFMEA documents will take 20 hours of time. - Late PFMEA requirements that vendor refuses to handle are the most painful thing. Triggers expensive and understaffed internal process for updating equipment.