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Schuler press weighs 80 tons, that's not its stamping pressure. But do you know the utilization rate / capacity of the current press? Let's not assume they need another one in Fremont without information.
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When talking about presses, nobody identifies a press by its weight, it’s always identified by its tonnage. Weight is not an informative metric in the industry and only matters when discussing installation to the base.
Customer: I need to make 100,000 brass flanges per week.
Vendor: I’ve got this beautiful press that tips the scales at 10 ton.
Not helpful.
Customer: I need to make 100,000 brass flanges per week.
Vendor: I’ve got a 250 ton press that cycles up to 100 strokes/min.
Now we’re getting somewhere.
We’ve already done the maths here before in terms of possible run rates and down time. You’re late by over a year and a half to this discussion.
Run rate will depend on the die design, the part design, the press design, the material, the lubricant, the robot set up and programming et al... Typically for class A body panels, run rates will be between 12-20 strokes/min. Use an average of 15-16 strokes/min in your math. Use the same for the other new press line and less when doing the math for their old hydraulic Schuler. I think they’ve got a fourth decent sized press line in there but it wouldn’t be doing many body panels, simply not big enough.
You could also track down the various videos of Tesla’s presses running and/or other similar presses making body panels and count the strokes, or even visit Schuler’s website.
We shouldn’t make assumptions about them needing another press line without information, but you made an assumption about Y die sets and how all that was going to work without information?!
Here’s the difference, though, this is one of my areas of expertise and thus any assumptions I might have made are based on hard knowledge in the industry and video/picture/investor and car owners tours etc... information gathered over the years. I also qualified my educated guess.
