Nissan has a factory about 20 minutes from our place. I wanted to do a tour. If you remember the blog from November, when we went to the Nissan Factory Tour, and it turned out to be a festival, we were told to book a time to come on-line.
When I tried, bookings were 3 months out. So, I waited and got a date the kids wouldn't be in school. They called to re-schedule, and I chose a half-day.
This is the Oppama plant. Yokohama is to the left. So, when they said, "It's in Yokohama," we were cool with that. Well, they have a motor factory in Yokohama, and that is where we were to go.
But, they took pity on us, and since they had room and we had an interpreter, they let us go see the line.
They gave us all radios, so we could hear in the plant. Then they gave our interpreter the radio that would broadcast to our radios, while she listened to what the Japanese lady was saying.
So many things were automated. This is not the clock I saw (we couldn't take pictures inside, these are the Nissan pics from their wall where we could take pics), but they showed how many were expected to be complete, and how many were completed.
This is a Juke. They make Leaf, Cubes, Jukes and .... here. Left side, right side, all different as they come down the line.
That paper hanging in the hood tells them what to put in the car. It also is in roman alphabet letters. The little cart on wheels to the left, is an automated cart. It follows a magnetic line on the floor. It contains all the parts needed for the guys on this car to finish all the specs on that sheet.
The are places that guys fill up those carts. A computer tells them what to do, and a light comes on above each bin they need something from before they pluck it out.
We're back in the show room.
Liam and William
William was in the back!
The Leaf (they make it here, and when they check the exhaust, and speed/brakes, etc (which was fun to watch), they don't have to raise the exhaust sucker-upper unit!
No gas!
Tim and I.
They gave us all little Leaf cars to take home. This is Brennan and Sean playing on one of their demonstration computers.
This showed how the steering works.
This how the brakes work.
Both pedals at one time? The accelerator to go and spin the disk, the brake to clamp down on it and stop it. So cool for the kids!
To sign up, look for the jp page online, and good luck going to the correct plant! :)
The kids had fun in the cars and with the hands-on demonstration stuff they had there.
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