2010 Camaro Factory Tour
 

Check it out everyone. Prob along the lines of "How it's Made", but should be cool to see. 8-)

National Geographic Channel Ultimate Factories: 2010 Camaro feature

Thursday 10/15 at 8pm

CAMARO FACTS

After an 18-hour assembly per car, a new Camaro rolls off the assembly line almost every minute! Go behind the scenes with us and discover what really goes into designing a 2010 Camaro.

There are 734 robots doing the nearly 5,000 spot welds needed to create the body shell for each Camaro Coupe.

The Camaro’s outer body side panel is transformed through the strikes by four die sets, with the initial forming press generating nearly 1,400 tons of force at a speed of seven body sides per minute.

The Oshawa Car Paint Shop is a new, 1.3-million-square-foot facility.

This new paint shop was built in 2007 and is capable of delivering 150 painted vehicles per hour.

In order to get to the paint shop the Camaro body has to be transported on a bridge over a city street where it is painted and then shipped back across the bridge to the trim area for final detailing.

After eight hours in the body shop and five more hours in the paint shop, the Camaro body shell makes its way across a two-level bridge to the general assembly area.

It takes approximately 18 hours to build a Camaro.

One Camaro rolls off the assembly line approximately every minute.

This new paint shop was built in 2007 and is capable of delivering 150 painted vehicles per hour.

The Oshawa GM plant also produces the Impala in the same factory facility. The total plant size is 8.57 million square feet.

It took a $740-million-dollar investment to convert the Oshawa Car plant into a state of the art flexible manufacturing facility, producing the Chevrolet Camaro as its first product.

The Oshawa GM plant first opened in 1953.

Currently there are 3,743 employees in the plant (3,415 hourly pay and 328 salary.)

The Camaro engine is produced at a different plant and has to be shipped approximately 2 hours to the assembly line where it finally meets the Camaro.

sweeeeeet guna have to remember to watch

Only on tonite? sounds pretty sweet

DVR set to go

On right now gogogogogogogogogog!!!

on now sweet

ahh the joy of watching overpaid autoworkers

watching it as I type...interesting show! thanks for the heads up

nvrm

i wonder why they're building the V6s and not showing the V8s

because v8s are of the devil!

They are showing the V8's. They showed the V6 being made at St.Cath's but not the LS3.
GM wants to really talk up the V6, and it should be. 304hp, 3700lbs, and gets 29mpg. Thats outstanding.

oh ok cool

That was cool. Its on at 11 again for anyone wanting to see it.
Ugh...Victory Red SS at the end. Want

that show was really cool. i want one even more now if thats possible. damn it.

Meh..it's was cool!! i like when they did the Peterbilt factory!! now that was awsome!!!

I DVR'ed it, I'll watch it tomorrow. I was too busy watching the Phillies win.

i DVR'd as well, will watch tonite

watched it, was quite informative, but shows me there is no need for unions in the auto industry when all the robots are doing all the work, from moving the sheet metal, to welding, to painting....tell me what that leaves for humans to do. They put in a dash board, but im sure a guidance system could put one in. Hell they even put the sealant on the glass!!! so tell me what dangers there are in a place like that when 99% of the work is not done by human? I see theres like 50 people working, but what the hell are the other 3,000 people doing there?

Great bit of watching this program. Yeah, it shows how the robots do most of the work, but they do it to such a finite degree and with such speed that it boggles the mind. I would never guessed the amount of details that go into making this car and especially the PAINT QUALITY. :shock: