The Future of Manufacturing Is Automated [Video]

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Today’s assembly and production lines use advanced industrial robots to assemble some very commonplace items. They demonstrate the astonishing efficiency of intelligent factories where robots are used to produce products faster, safer and better.

Tesla’s factory is one such example of a modern intelligent factory. It features 5.3 million square feet (492,386 square meters) of manufacturing space and is one of the most advanced factories in the world. Tesla car parts are produced and assembled in the same facility making them ready to be delivered to eager customers everywhere. 

The factory can produce up to 600,000 cars each year. There are also pencil-making factories that deliver around 14 billion pencils worldwide each year. That’s enough pencils to circle the globe 62 times. In order to produce that many pencils, they must have some pretty advanced processes in …