I also used to work in manufacturing and whenever we started making a new product, the first batch of units is hand-checked by operations, then hand-checked by engineering, then a handful are kept as gold standards references. If there are any problems, it's all hands on deck working overtime to get them fixed immediately, because YOU DON'T KEEP MAKING FAULTY SHIT.

I'm also going to pull my manufacturing card and second @NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net. Not only is this shit that you work out when you're setting up the production line, this is stuff that I would expect from a manufacturing product that has been running for a few years and isn't subjected to as much scrutiny in Quality Control because the defect and liability statistics for it are well known and within parameters, therefore it is more cost effective to just deal with problems as they crop up on the consumer end.

This coming out of a new product, fresh off the line with new processes, is a sign of a complete lack of quality control. That said, there is absolutely no way that they are ever going to make this SolidWorks abomination look good at-scale. You just can't guarantee that level of precision to make those block structures look clean (not that Tesla has good QC for their paneling on their rounded edges and doors anyways). It continues to boggle my mind that any engineer actually signed off on this. I mean, I guess I can see it from a sufficiently bazinga-ed mechanical engineer, but they must not have consulted with a single manufacturing engineer before designing this thing. I would absolutely hate to be on the line in any capacity for this project.

Yeah, what are they trying to say? That you mass produce and sell garbage for a while and then only after you set up more factories you fix it? I thought the whole point of mass production (outside of maybe a food context) was that you can take something very precise and then replicate it without losing any precision, letting you produce a consistent product on a large scale.

Wait so when the Marketing Department needs to do a prerelease photoshoot of the brand new flagship product, they arent asking you to send them the worst shit you have ever seen??

however everybody a lil bit involved in industry knows that this sort of things on photos are considered normal in first steps of mass production.

Yes, but only if it's December 1941, your factory was just dumped in a field in Siberia two hours ago and the Red Army expects the first T-34 to roll off your line tomorrow morning.

musk learning in real time why the plastation 1 does not run CAD software