Companies
Tesla
Date
September 1, 2023
Industry
Automotive
Problems Identified
- Version control on automation configurations.
Role
Manufacturing Engineer
Summary
- Mitch is a tenured ME at Tesla who has worked his way through sustain, NPI, and into a pilot plant role. - Covers everything in powertrain assembly and machining. - Mitch’s biggest problem is communication between design and ME. - Long discussion on revision control - both on design files (e.g. CAD) and on machine configurations for the plant. Mitch is working internally to introduce some version control system to his group. - Mitch gave confirmation on PFMEA inversion issue seen with other Tesla engineers, but his analysis and potential solution does not indicate much promise for fix.