Chris Knight posted:

also love that he re-org'd the Tesla structure so he now has more direct reports lol

FAUXTON posted:

ket sematary

Pinterest Mom posted:

some of the fastest car factories produce a car maybe every 25 seconds. That sounds fast. But if you think of a 5-meter long car, including gap, and a 4.5 meter car with a half meter gap or something, that's only 0.2 meters per second.

Elder Postsman posted:

i'm trying to wrap my head around this and it's just

like all he did was take 5 meters and divide by 25 seconds and somehow that's how fast the assembly line moves? does he think it takes only 25 seconds to make the whole car? does he think the assembly line is only as long as the car? i think i smell burnt toast??

Roosevelt posted:

remember this?

Elder Postsman posted:

i'm trying to wrap my head around this and it's just

like all he did was take 5 meters and divide by 25 seconds and somehow that's how fast the assembly line moves? does he think it takes only 25 seconds to make the whole car? does he think the assembly line is only as long as the car? i think i smell burnt toast??

Beeftweeter posted:

he didn't think anyone would check his math, their eyes glazed over in "wow! vacuum manufacturing, what a time to be alive!"

gschmidl posted:

Hyperbolic boer chamber

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

knowing how SAP makes software its not like they can churn out a worse product

Tesseraction posted:

apparently Tesla are the only company who don't use the industry standard SAP for their enterprise resource planning, which is what they use to produce their financials https://www.erpresearch.com/knowledge/which-erp-system-does-tesla-use

they decided to roll their own, which given what's been said about their finance teams over the years, I can presume it's just as reliable as rolling your own crypto or datetime

Silver Alicorn posted:

Wyatt ERP is right there

Chris Knight posted:

in a well actually posted:

refleks posted:

I think they were doing some insane poo poo like tracking customer issues in Jira or state of completeness of each car?

it was something clearly deranged

quote:

Tesla documents read by CNBC show that employees had to navigate a maze of directives available in internal systems, such as WARP (a Tesla-built enterprise resource planning system), intranets and group emails, to figure out how to track and classify billing for each repair.

In one internal "Goodwill Guide," Tesla told employees that any "repair/replacement necessary to correct defects in the materials/workmanship of any parts manufactured/supplied by Tesla" should be covered by and categorized as "Warranty/Extended Warranty pay type (post-delivery)." That would apply to any customer's car that was still under a warranty, while out-of-warranty cars would require a customer to pay for repairs.

For a specific issue — "blistering" headrests in car seats manufactured by Tesla — the company gave employees different directions about how to bill customers for service to replace the part. One internal Tesla document seen by CNBC said the blistering headrest "is not a defect, and therefore not covered under warranty" and that repairs should be offered as goodwill. Confusingly, that document linked to another page in the company intranet saying customers should have to pay to get their headrests fixed.

Tesla also treated replacement of defective tail lamps as "customer pay," after determining that chemicals used in commercial car washes could cause stress cracks in their lenses, according to internal documents read by CNBC. But in a seemingly contradictory note, an internal e-mail in the second quarter of 2021 referencing the issue said, "First repair and replacement of parts can be covered under Goodwill – Vehicle Quality."

...

The complaint embedded images of what the whistleblowers said were emails, spreadsheets and screenshots of some of Tesla's homegrown software and back-end systems. It said these showed that non-administrative and non-executive employees had access to read and edit data points, via a developer tool called MySQL Workbench, that could later feed into Tesla's shareholder communications and financial statements.

In one example, the tipsters said screenshots showed other Tesla employees changed the status of material used in manufacturing from "scrap" to "work in progress." Scrap refers to material generated from a manufacturing job that is unusable waste.

In another example, the complaint said screenshots showed Tesla employees had manually changed the status of "used" cars to "new" in a program that tracked vehicle deliveries data. This could affect Tesla's delivery numbers, they said, though they didn't try to estimate the overall impact and instead encouraged the SEC to investigate further.

Chris Knight posted:

In another example, the complaint said screenshots showed Tesla employees had manually changed the status of "used" cars to "new" in a program that tracked vehicle deliveries data. This could affect Tesla's delivery numbers, they said, though they didn't try to estimate the overall impact and instead encouraged the SEC to investigate further.

Sagebrush posted:

That last paragraph reminds me that several people have reported getting "new" Teslas with several hundred miles on the odometer, strangers' phones linked in Bluetooth with their contacts loaded, and their address set as the home address

Sagebrush posted:

That last paragraph reminds me that several people have reported getting "new" Teslas with several hundred miles on the odometer, strangers' phones linked in Bluetooth with their contacts loaded, and their address set as the home address

Elder Postsman posted:

i'm trying to wrap my head around this and it's just

like all he did was take 5 meters and divide by 25 seconds and somehow that's how fast the assembly line moves? does he think it takes only 25 seconds to make the whole car? does he think the assembly line is only as long as the car? i think i smell burnt toast??

Lain Iwakura posted:

spacex also uses the same erp system as tesla

i wonder what twitter uses

Chris Knight posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esWbWxRDzVI

Elder Postsman posted:

i'm trying to wrap my head around this and it's just

like all he did was take 5 meters and divide by 25 seconds and somehow that's how fast the assembly line moves? does he think it takes only 25 seconds to make the whole car? does he think the assembly line is only as long as the car? i think i smell burnt toast??