Giga Texas/ Integrated Circuit Diagram

[Ogre]

Not as exciting as truck porn, but I found the factory layout bits fascinating. What is crazy about this diagram is it makes it look fairly simple, but the actual layout is 3 dimensional with portals pushing parts up and down layers as they need to. They said they were inspired by integrated circuit design, but It’s more like solving one of those Klotski games only 3d and with moving parts.

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[JBee]

The space comparison between the body shop and general assembly is revealing. I'm also thinking CT part might just be on another level but in similar portions? It sort of depends where the CT body parts get made or otherwise come from.

 

[ricinro]

CT could also follow parallel to MY in stamping, hooking up with casting in body... then head west. Future production would allow for expansion for CT, Semi and bots. Semi assembly: some parts from stamping then going west to the central part.

 

[Ogre]

The space comparison between the body shop and general assembly is revealing. I'm also thinking CT part might just be on another level but in similar portions? It sort of depends where the CT body parts get made or otherwise come from.

Yeah, one thing I found odd is the casting section is way off in the opposite corner from where “future production” lives. I thought they were planning on putting all of the Gigapresses together. If Cybertruck is fully in the Future Production area, they are going to have to ferry the castings across to there, perhaps on the second floor.

I guess they can move them while they are cooling.

 

[Ogre]

CT could also follow parallel to MY in stamping, hooking up with casting in body... then head west. Future production would allow for expansion for CT, Semi and bots. Semi assembly: some parts from stamping then going west to the central part.

They are apparently making the Semi in Nevada? I understand they have a different factory there.

This could be where the bots get built. As @JBee points out above, this map is incomplete, there are 3 full floors to scale out to and Tesla tends to use vertical space quite well.

 

[John K]

They are already running out of room.

I assume the paint department has a U process layout.Batteries seem to cross production path to get to where they are needed. Diagram is too high level to determine. Any extra movement is Muda / waste.

 

[Ogre]

I think what makes this diagram hard to follow is the scale.

You look at this and probably picture in your head that the “Body” section is perhaps 100 foot wide. The reality is it is more like 500 feet wide.

Any of these sections would be entire buildings—factories in the own right—if they were anything but a Giga Factory.

 

[rr6013]

Yeah, one thing I found odd is the casting section is way off in the opposite corner from where “future production” lives. I thought they were planning on putting all of the Gigapresses together. If Cybertruck is fully in the Future Production area, they are going to have to ferry the castings across to there, perhaps on the second floor.

I guess they can move them while they are cooling.

Good catch. The slide is informative mostly correct; not accurate. It cartoons over the footers installed in the center galley which awaits IDRA CT casting units.

Casting on North end of BODY is car 6000# SWAG.

Biggest head scratcher? Arrows delineating through-flow process. Why create a bottleneck constraint? Surprised facility growth isn’t engineered into process flow for future expansion. Diagramatically, this slide is telling GigaAustin is destined as one in a series of Giga.

 

[JBee]

Good catch. The slide is informative mostly correct; not accurate. It cartoons over the footers installed in the center galley which awaits IDRA CT casting units.

Casting on North end of BODY is car 6000# SWAG.

Biggest head scratcher? Arrows delineating through-flow process. Why create a bottleneck constraint? Surprised facility growth isn’t engineered into process flow for future expansion. Diagramatically, this slide is telling GigaAustin is destined as one in a series of Giga.

I think the diagram is grossly oversimplified for the target audience.

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From the walk through video of giga it seems that even the one level is some 6-7m high and has multiple levels of machinery and movement within it, without even touching the level above. There's heaps of overhead passing around of components that would otherwise chew up floor space.

If every level is like that, there might well be assembly lines per level, rather than just on one side of the building. Would make more sense anyway I think, as every model needs battery packs and gigapresses etc.

 

[Ogre]

The “Body” section alone is 2/3 of a mile long….

The Paint area is half a mile long and (we know from photos) 3 stories tall with multiple layers of cars stacked up drying between paint layers.

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[Crissa]

It would be a flow constraint if it weren't the size of some multilane freeways.

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[Throwcomputer]

Not as exciting as truck porn, but I found the factory layout bits fascinating. What is crazy about this diagram is it makes it look fairly simple, but the actual layout is 3 dimensional with portals pushing parts up and down layers as they need to. They said they were inspired by integrated circuit design, but It’s more like solving one of those Klotski games only 3d and with moving parts.

Future Production is the future home of Cybertruck production!

Oh boy the upward mobility and they are going to be cranking out massive amounts of multiple models!! Let's go!!

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