Just a day after Tesla said its Fremont factory would remain open despite the “shelter in place” order currently in effect in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Alameda County Sheriff’s office said the company would have to stop building cars at the plant.
“Tesla is not an essential business as defined in the Alameda County Health Order,” said the sheriff. “Tesla can maintain minimum basic operations per the Alameda County Health Order.”
Tesla: @Tesla is not an essential business as defined in the Alameda County Health Order. Tesla can maintain minimum basic operations per the Alameda County Health Order.
— Alameda County Sheriff (@ACSOSheriffs) March 17, 2020
According to the Alameda County Health Order, “Minimum Basic Operations” include “the minimum necessary activities to maintain the value of the business’s inventory, ensure security, process payroll and employee benefits, or for related functions,” and “the minimum necessary activities to facilitate employees of the business being able to continue to work remotely from their residences.”
The timing of the shutdown could hardly be worse. Tesla is just beginning deliveries of Model Y, and was surely hoping for a big media splash and a smooth ramp-up to volume production. The debacle also coincides with the end of Tesla’s fiscal quarter (the quarter ends March 31, and the shelter in place order is to expire April 7).
Tesla has long been in the habit of producing batches of cars for overseas markets at the beginning of each quarter, then batches for local deliveries at the end. This results in a frenzied production push at the end of each quarter, in order to beat or equal the previous quarter’s production figures and keep the predatory pundits happy.
This batching policy is plainly not the most efficient way to run a production line, and Electrek’s Jameson Dow believes that it’s now making a bad situation worse. “Tesla needs to realize that they’ve made a mistake by not planning ahead,” Dow writes. “When you batch your operations like this, you open yourself up to disruptions that are more painful than they need to be.”
Source: Electrek
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