JDC
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posted April 28, 2009 03:26 PM
 Edited By: JDC on 28 Apr 2009 23:51
HDTHR and Kawasaki
Last night HDTHR had a one hour show on Kawasaki's bike plant in Japan. Interesting to see their assembly line and their "human proof" automation setup. It was automated so that each bike being built had it's parts delivered, in the moment, for the specific model bike, to the specific worker, and if the part was not installed, meaning the part still in the bin, it shut down the assembly line, automatically. Also, for each bike, when fittings required a specific torque, each bike model and tq spec had a certain torque wrench to use. If the wrong TQ wrench was picked up, it shut down the line as well. The manuf plant manager said on average the line is shut down about 3 minutes per hour.
They almost came to show the bikes on the dyno and reving to ? RPM, but cut that portion before you could see how high they run up the RPM to log the power.
Each bike has a zebra code, and the dyno info goes into the 'file' on each bike and how it performed, so Kawa can look up any bike after it leaves the manuf and gets into the buyers hands... going back to the dyno and power info at the manuf.
Be nice if Kawa would be willing to provide that info to the buyers.
They also showed the race track they use in Japan, I believe it was on Kyushu.
My channel list was out, so I could not get the name of the show.
  
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gilberjj
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posted April 28, 2009 03:48 PM
Dang, I wish I would have known about that. I would've watched it. I wonder how my bike did on the dyno? haha
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posted April 28, 2009 04:34 PM
Twist The Throttle:
http://turbo.discovery.com/beyond/?playerId=245988601&categoryId=1418496841&lineupId=1454928246&titleId=1454865196
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posted April 28, 2009 04:38 PM
Edited By: fish_antlers on 29 Apr 2009 01:07
kawi's not too good at getting the word out about things lately 
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gilberjj
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posted April 28, 2009 08:57 PM
Sweet vid! Thanks dogo
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bigtallguy
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posted April 29, 2009 02:48 AM
Makes you wonder how they managed to over-torque the frames on some of them...
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reevesmreeves
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posted April 29, 2009 06:51 AM
i think you see them using the tools in the second vid. they over tightened more than just the frame.
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MJ
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posted April 29, 2009 08:03 AM
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i think you see them using the tools in the second vid. they over tightened more than just the frame.
On mine they overtightened some things and undertightened others ;(
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posted April 29, 2009 08:19 AM
Edited By: reevesmreeves on 29 Apr 2009 16:19
hahaha, yep! the way they were spitting those things out in the vids it doesn't suprise me at all.
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posted April 29, 2009 08:24 AM
Why didn't the line stop when they put 48lbs. of air pressure in my tires and left 2 plus inches of chain lack.
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reevesmreeves
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posted April 29, 2009 09:31 AM
sounds like a dealer mistake there too.
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extrapilot
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posted April 30, 2009 05:01 PM
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sounds like a dealer mistake there too.
Yea..... it called PDI, I wonder if the dealers know this.
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