How to build a Ford F-150 Lightning? - Full Factory Tour!
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2022
- I'm a HUGE fan of electric trucks - This video is not sponsored. I flew myself out to Dearborn Michigan to see exactly how the new Electric Ford F-150 Lightning is manufactured. The body of the new truck is actually conveyed in from a separate building using above street passageways. SUPER cool. Ford says the goal is to be manufacturing the F150 Lightning at a yearly rate of 150,000 trucks a year by the end of 2023.
The F-150 Lightning just won the 2023 MotorTrend Truck of the year - so lets see how that truck is built.
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As one of the many line workers here at REVC (the electric F-150 truck plant) we appreciate all of the love!
i hear REVC & BEVG constantly at work. we built the AGVs, and i believe the cab/box lift. i hope they last you guys forever. they may experience issues, but Fori Automation will be with Ford until the project is up to their liking.
Come to kcap and see what real work is. What do you build, 300 each shift? Hahahaha
@@hadtocheathimtobeathim6549 we supplied KCAP too. also Cuautitlan and Irapuato
@Had to cheat him to beat him dearborn is building real trucks right across the street. No need to go all the way to kcap
No love here. FORD helped murder WWII PoW's INCLUDING young american men. Henry Ford was an traitor to everything American and would have stabbed a real American for the chance to suck Hitler off.
I'm truly very grateful for the personality type of people who can do repetitive tasks in a factory. Without them, we'd have very little. I just couldn't.
I used to work in a warehouse that would develop alternative liquid propane fuel systems for fleet vehicles. I was in charge of making the fuel rails. It was an extremely repetitive task, but because of it being so repetitive it allows you to learn the job very quickly and it essentially makes it second nature, which is probably the only upside to doing factory/warehouse jobs. I will say though that like you, I just couldn't do it for a long time because it gets extremely boring and it almost drives you insane because your body just eventually wants you to do something different.
I would hope most are trained in various positions so they can rotate. I wouldn’t mind doing a job like that if I made the same.
I used to work in a car manufacturing plant doing the same thing everyday. I couldn't continue the job because I was losing my mind. I would go to sleep dream that I was working all night and wake up to do it again. Just torture
@@coytus94 do they at least let you listen to podcast or music?
@@Bonkeyable I know the feeling, I worked at a brewery packaging beers doing the samething everyday and I used to dream I was working as well.
The windshield installing robot alone is one of the coolest pieces of tech I've seen. The amount of engineering that must have went into that alone is mind boggling
I work at an auto assembly plant as an engineer so I see this everyday. Regardless, it is always interesting to see how other OEMs do it.
I've never seen two universal robots stuck together before, like at 8.28
@@weeeeehhhhh we have a very similar setup at the front suspension and engine marriage. It does the same thing you see here. Photo vision system.
I have to give it up for the factory workers, it's so easy to take for granted but after seeing this it reminds me of how many people it takes to put these vehicles together. All the man hours and hard work involved. you guys are rock stars!
@@kristopherdetar4346 In reality, no one wants to work these jobs because they are absolutely soul crushing and repetitive, so good on robots for "stealing jobs"
@@kristopherdetar4346 when the tractor was invented, thousands of farmers "lost" their jobs. But in reality no one lost their job. The jobs just moved to the city.
@@Jacob.B.Larsen to deny thousands of factory jobs lost in the Motor City is just plain ignorant. Yes it is a different world, spare me your insensitivity to the downfall of Detroit. I lived there during those Golden years of employment in the factories. Democratic rule, UAW and technology has helped to kill Detroit. May it RIP………….
@@kristopherdetar4346 Unions don't kill jobs. Corporate greed kills jobs. They spent millions on those robots to replace jobs that pay $60k a year. I work at Boeing and they are doing the same thing there. They outsource everything they can. That's why they had two planes fly themselves into the ground in 2018 and 2019. Had the electronics engineering been performed in the US instead of India for $9/hr, those planes would never have crashed. This is now the most expensive corporate blunder in history. So hopefully other businesses will learn from this.
@@kristopherdetar4346 In my industry we call those jobs the "dirty, dull, or dangerous" jobs. Nobody wants to work them, so outsource to robots and have people undertake more meaningful work.
Fascinating! It's so cool to watch robots and people working together to accomplish this sort of complex task. Thank you for bringing this to the channel, Zack!
Agora fazer video novo no canal pra gente você não quer né
@@pedro.alcatra Tá saindo! E vai ser longo hehe
Go check out Jeremy Fielding's recent video where he tours Yaskawa's manufacturing facility and takes a deep look at the MH900, a truly massive robot. Very related to this and a great look at the insane engineering, brilliant minds, and skilled hands going into these things.
@@nasonguy Cool! Thanks for the tip, I'm gonna take a look!
Amazing for sure.
Makes you wonder what 10 years will be like when automation fully kicks in..
This is absolutely mind blowing when you consider all the planning, designing, engineering, maintenance, and so forth involved before one truck can be produced. And then the knowledge and commitment of every single employee involved in the hourly, daily, weekly, and yearly continuation of this "program". Total admiration for all involved! Excellent and extremely informative video!!!
in the end every step seems so simple :D
future is insane
And then you realize all they thought about was how to build it. Zero thought to maintainance and the inevitable issues that will arise. Let's see in a out 5 to 7 years when things start breaking and the average repair cost is north of $20k.
Wow, this is more automated than I expected
Yes. You don't appreciate it when, as a consumer, all you see is the final product and the price tag.
You need to watch this to understand why it costs so much.
@@MatthewEGolden Right, aluminum body repair for example is sky rocketing insurance cost. Far more expensive to repair than steel.
I’ve been watching your videos for a long time and is partially one of the reasons I became an engineer. It’s seems like an unreal full circle moment watching your video on the plant I work at! Thanks Zach
This is one of the coolest videos I've seen about the auto manufacturing industry. So cool of Ford to allow you to view their vehicle being manufactured
Bit more than view - he got all up in it!
About 52 years ago, my Mum took me to the Ford factory in Dagenham, Essex, UK because I was obsessed with designing robots. I learnt a lot that day and have never stopped being fascinated since. Thank you for taking me full circle, so to speak.
There's a great movie called Made in Dagenham about the workers in that factory. It's really well done.
did you became engineer now ? just curious...
Great Job Jerry . A couple of thoughts as a technician at a Ford dealership;
1. The process of assembling a vehicle is simply amazing.
2. It's clear that these trucks are built for ease of assembly , not serviceability. That explains why some of the stuff is so hard to access and service.
3. It's amazing that these vehicles have as few problems as they do given the number of parts that have to come together just right.
The level of engineering and automation is absolutely insane
Totally up for more ‘How it’s made’ episodes. Keep ‘em coming
As a robotics engineering student, this video is heaven. Thanks, Zack.
Same here as an automation engineer myself. Love this type of video
Where do you work at
As a nerd in general, same here. This one is gold...
Cheers Zack
Currently working on my robotics skills with fanuc roboguide :)
Just graduated with a robotics engineering degree in May already working in the automation field. Keep at it! It's incredibly fun and exciting working with this stuff
My father used to work in that same plant 6 years ago before he was forced to medically retire. Seeing all of this shows me just how far Ford has come even in 6 years, yet alone the last 100+
Very impressed with the engineers. My hat go off to them
This is great Zack, I've been wanting to see this facility up-close.
Thank you! It was such a cool place.
@@JerryRigEverything i now its outside your usual videos, but you should tour the NIF facility in CA, the one that just announced a fusion energy breakthrough. its amazing
As someone who has worked at GM(GM Oshawa before closing and then reopening a year later), nice to see the similarities on the manufacturing process. Seems they use the same contractors and companies to build these factories. That was a nice clean floor.
Too bad the cars being produced are complete junk!
@@kafilkavich707… how?
@@Karterness Just wait till it breaks : ) And I love the fact people actually enjoy sitting 35min to an hour to charge these things, lol no thank you! I would NEVER feel safe traveling in a EV!
@@kafilkavich707 You sound like those that back on the 60´s, thought seat belts were installed because the cars were bad.
@@kafilkavich707 Most people charge their vehicles at night. Even if you are travelling and need to charge, you will probably do other things whilst you are charging. And it's not like you are charging to 100% every time. You can obviously, but you don't have to unless you got the free time. While I don't own and EV and don't plan to for awhile, your opinion is actually just garbage on the advent of this technology.
It's great to see an assembly line of how electric trucks are made. Thanks, Zach!
. . .this video is very helpful , it bring back the name of " FORD "to the memory
Welcome to Michigan! If you are ever in Michigan again I would highly recommend visiting the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village! It is amazing to see how all the vehicles work and how things got started with so much more to learn about! I hope you enjoyed your stay to my home area!
Does his museum include his work on eugenics and anti-semitism?
@@XDSDDLord Unfortunately I'm pretty sure it doesn't. However, there you can get tickets to get a tour of the Rouge factory, which builds the ICE F-150s and I believe is very near to this plant, and part of that is a video about its history and Ford's union-busting.
I highly recommend anyone who goes to Greenfield Village to get some of the frozen custard and go see the glassblowing. It's all very cool. You can also get tickets for the Rouge factory tour, there, which builds the ICE F-150.
@@XDSDDLord in the factory tour they do mention his anti-union stance and his harsh practices in the factories, albeit not in an overly dramatic way. There is no mention of his stance on eugenics, antisemitism and racism. I am currently reading Ford's biography and while you can get an idea of who he was (especially in the parts about Fordlandia), there is no specific mention of any hatred towards specific minorities or collectives of people
They also have one of Nikola Tesla's death masks squirreled away in a back room. If memory serves, only three were made.
This is such a cool behind the scenes look. I can't wait to get mine!
WOW... a whole new level of respect for how incredibly complicated this is. Engineering and assembly.
It blows my mind the logistics of this all, how do they design that factory to be that efficient and for everything to come together perfectly, and then have to change every last step of the process when a new model/body style comes out. Just blows my mind how it all works, I can’t explain it.
I work for a major competitor. And props to Ford, for allowing him in into the frame plant. Very insightful, and great content
GM?
And that is how you make the 2023 Motor Trend Truck of the Year. Very cool video! Thanks Zack!
Very cool! Please keep making more manufacturing videos. It's so fascinating to get an inside look.
Neat to see artisanal work like this is still done being practiced. Like the quaint wiring harness that goes on for miles and installed strand by strand. It’s adorable and really takes you back
On a waiting list for one of these! Fun to see it made.
Enjoy
@@222INFINITY I will...in 18ish months when I can finally get one.....
@@Fourthof7sons Don't feel bad, I ordered a Ranger in May, just got the build date (jan.27,'23) yesterday. Our workplace ordered a pair of trucks last year from RAM, still not delivered. Everyone is in waiting lists.
I've been at "La rouge" a couple of years ago and it was massively impressive! The most impressive part is how different trims, colors and options are just made simultaneously
I was a manufacturing engineer there. It’s a pain in the ass.
This is truly fascinating. Thanks for providing this behind-the-scenes view.
Great video! It is always cool to see how vehicles are manufactured in a modern production facility. I would love to do something like this.
It's amazing to consider how much consideration has to be given to manufacturing during the design process.
Thank you for putting a spotlight on my fellow Michiganders. The factory workers work really hard and it's still one of the biggest industries in our state. Respect Zach ✌️
I marvel at the ingenuity involved in creating machines that facilitate high-yield production, whether it's cars or even just candy.
Great vid. Thanks, Zack!
As an auto glass technician, That was really neat to watch them install the glass
As someone who has worked at a Ford plant, (& a more modern one, too!) I can say that this plant is AMAZING!!
Cool! I wonder what Henry Ford would think if he saw today's assembly line!
Good to see Michigan get the attention from the automotive industry and audience like it once has.
My Home Town. Four Generations of my Family have worked for FORDS starting at Highland Park with my Grandfather.
Moved away to Tennessee 33 years ago and never looked back! 😎
I work at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant!
We build the F-250 up to 550 and the Expedition!
There is a ford f550? Is that like 400x800 meters?
As an average consumer this definitely provides some different perspective on the design process for vehicles. It's obvious that cars are designed with the user in mind but i've never really stopped to think about the amount of attention that goes into designing it to actually be built until today
Absolute dream video for me! There were so many mind-blowing parts in the video; it was so nice of Ford to let you do this! ❤
I loved every second of this video ❤️
Beautifully made 💫 and loved the tech ✨
I'm a car nut. Always have been. Helped my Great-Grandfather build/restore Model Ts. Only a few tools needed. Then getting to see THIS!! Just WOW! Thanks for sharing!!!
Saddened to hear of the Jeep Grand Cherokee Facility in Illinois is being put on ice. Be interesting to see if someone takes that over as Rivian did in Southern Illinois from an abandoned Mitsubishi Facility. Sad and terrified to see what's going on in Europe at the moment so be interesting to see how Ford, GM and Jeep et al *DO* in fact step up to the plate in this what is clearly a World War 3 "over there" anyways.
Many manufacturers have plant tours, TMMK (Toyota Kentucky) which is the largest automotive plant in north america has tours regularly. But many others do as well.
Working at the Kansas City Plant making the other less interesting half of the F150's (Gasoline only) and the Transit Van, I have to say, it's really cool seeing an extremely similar process being used over there as we do for the electric transit. Great video, cool to see the inside of another plant I have not visited.
You guys built my F150 - outstanding job - still running like a beast after almost 5 years and 72k miles
What an incredible opportunity, thanks for sharing your experience
Very cool tour through that big assembly line. Thanks for sharing
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Love seeing stuff like this. Its always interesting to see how things are made/put together. Thank you & Ford for making this video. :)
This is exactly what I needed to watch after a garbage day of work. Makes me feel like a kid again watching this.
THANKS FORD for allowing this Video!!!!! I'M a BIG FORD fan( Lifelong), and feel proud to see the Production!!!!!!!!
Great video. Up close to really get a feel of the truck being assembled. Thank you.
Reminds me of the good old times when I worked in the manufacturing factory where we just started to implement Kan-Ban and Just In time Delivery. We were to program this into the software systems. When 85% of all this work was done manually, very few automated systems. Seeing where this is today is amazing.
Love how the video turned out, and it was great meeting you! I watched this video while putting windshields in the F150 Lightning!
Interesting video. Thanks for the tour!
I'm a ford fan.. But one day a lot of people will regret buying one of these!
Is it just me who noticed a nut falling down at 06:12? :) apart from that, awesome video :)
Two of SOMETHING fell, yeah..
Amazing video! Very thankful for those workers helping build these vehicles. They all do amazing work!
Great video Jerry, thanks for sharing this experience 👏
Another reminder of how modern vehicle prices have skyrocketed. All of that automation comes at a premium. A beautiful truck. I applaud all of the hard working men and women that remain on the line.
Dude, this is awesome. Next, make a video on how to buy one! It will be a few years long 😅
That was sooooo interesting. Thanks Jerry and Ford. My big take away is how well the workers are looked after in terms of lifting weight and straining. You can't have an assembly line where people get too exhausted. Amazing
i (engineer, now more in the semiconductor industry) was working at a sub company during ramp up of the porsche taycan full electric base plate fab.
For the Taycan the frame and battery are one very big (structural) part of the car. it's removable but some parts of suspension and wheels mount to the frame directly.
For mainly the battery pack there was a lot more automation / robots, the empty frames and battery packs (LG Modules with 24V to 28V each) came in on one end and the combined thing came out the other side. This also meant high voltage risks, it ends up at 800V if i remember correctly.
Start and finish the complete thing was picked up / put back into a transport rack by a largwe robot arm.
The automated transport cars are really great because you can split up lines for stations that need longer time, and combine back to single fast check points.
Also if one station fails or takes longer you can simply reroute it around, even automatically.
Usually the frame was lowered onto 4 posts at the stations so everything was at the exact same position every time, afterwards the cart used the hydraulic lift/platform and transported the frame to the next station.
The charging was a bit of a problem, there were not enough ports implemented for the lines (bad planning) and especially if many carts were stuck on the way due to failures they sometimes did not reach the next charger.
But it was a more robust system, not lowering the contacts but simply the charge ports on the floor were humps with two copper rails and the contact for the cart were copper sliders on a hinge with springs. simply drove onto it, when it stopped it checkd if it saw the 24V at the input, then switched on the relays.
If you were to drive through a puddle there would be no voltage on the contact sliders.
Electric vehicles building electric vehciles.
The torque for each screw was monitored and logged.. The power cell packs were all monitored, charged/discharged and checked (integrated BMS) and data logged before install with heat transfer compund. complete frame+plate also had water rails directly integrated in the floor.
if you google for "PAG_Taycan_Technology_PM_EN" you find a pdf where you can see the baseplate in the first picture.
Thanks so much for this video. It's a dream to watch this whole process happen, especially in such high quality.
Great video, good to see AMERICAN manufacturing!!!!!!!!
Please make an extended version of this. I could watch this for days.
That was an unbelievably fascinating video‼️Thanks so much for posting👍
My favorite part of the manufacturing process is the paint dunk tank. Very satisfying.
Gonna enjoy watching this
Wow! Great to see the hard working individuals making these cars! It's fascinating how many different moving parts there are just to help get things in the right place!
This was SO COOL! Thanks for sharing
Very cool to see this factory in detail. More videos like this please!!!
SOO cool, love these factory tours, great work!
Interesting to see the process
Great video. Thanks for making and sharing...
This factory is quite something, thanks for the tour
I was there a few weeks ago! Did the full tour. What an amazing facility and even more amazing people they got there :)
This is why i like this person, sharing knowledge 😍
In 1963/4 3-4 grade toured the Ford plant in pico Rivera Cal. The cars were painted by submersing the whole body in a vat of paint, was amazing.
thank you for your visit and be sure to make video also from the other Factory
I used to work for FANUC Robotics' at the North American Headquarters in Rochester, Michigan as a software developer and it was neat to see the paint robots being assembled and tested on the factory floor below. It's amazing the precision and strength of those robots from the smallest LR Mate's to the massive M-2000iA.
I just made an assignemnt with those Universal Robots that take the photographs for school lol
I love this video! The detail! The factory sounds! The process! Learned so much.
Thanks for the awesome factory tour!
Its been almost 10 years since i've worked in a car factory, and sounds still bring back the horror of an assembly line....:)
Factory tours are so fun to watch!
I used to watch these kind of tours on Discovery Channel, now it's all on UA-cam and I LOVE IT. Also, it's my favorite electric truck so far so it's double fun for me 😁
The "how it's made" music and voice was playing in my head while watching this lol. "The operator carefully inserts the bolts before the robot takes the chassis to the next step"
This is really cool, thanks for making it.
This was one cool video!!! Thanks for the details.
I am genuinely amazed by the car manufacturing process! Might be one of my favorite videos from you for sure! Akin this to a sped up, perfected version of your Hummvee EV videos ha
Good job everthing bro❤
Love these manufacturing line videos, hope to see more!
Very cool thanks for sharing.
Would be great if you could get a similar tour of the Tesla factory in Austin, making semis and Cybertruck
Yeah, but that likely wont happen, at least for a while. Jerry seems to have gone to far on twitter😂, ending up blocked by Elon. The next best thing are the drone videos tesla published, flying from start to end through the process.
Wow!!! Big fan of American manufacturing. As a Boeing tool designer I can appreciate this dedication to tooling. Great Vid, Hi from Seattle.
what an excellent way to phrase it, "dedication to tooling"! Kudos!
how do you get into tool designing
Except the american-made index shows that Ford makes about 12% of their car parts in the US. It's easy to say it's made in the US when all you do is put together stuff made in Mexico 😆. Pretty much 100% of what is shown in the video was already made and just put together on the car 🤔
@@codder32still better then being entirely made in china
@@synfinium If "made in Mexico, assembled in America" is what the great "American manufacturing" is for you, than sure! Seems to me like some other lies told to make Americans feel better about their amazing country, but hey, what do I know :)
I didn't say it was worst or better though, just laugh at the "American manufacturing" part :)
Amazing how easy they make the process look.
Fantástico!!! Sem palavras!!! Parabéns Jerry abraços do Brasil!!!
I never imagined that these kinds of machines would actually sound like this when in action, fascinating
Very nice video. As someone who has worked with Vehicle ECUs on a software level (doing functional testing using Hardware in the Loop Testbenches), I'd have loved to see the end-of-line programming step. I know there's a lot of software calibrations that need to be done after all (like front camera alignment), but I've never actually got to see that part.
Cool video. Great to see how this is done!
Welcome to Michigan!
Went there on a class field trip in high school, it was amazing then and it's still amazing now