Cruising Cruze wrote:

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If Jayco makes 50 caravans in a day  how many man hrs is that for each caravan

won't they charge way to much for them ??????

and all the other builders as well

 

 

Cheers John

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 Was it Jayco making 50 a day OR the industry as a whole?

Aussie Paul. 

Cruising Cruze wrote:

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Jayco on its own Paul

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 Geez, 50 a DAY!!! Wow..

Aussie Paul. 

50 a day, shut the front gate!

I saw that on the giggle box as well. They showed the vans all side by side.

Good luck Rosa. I can see your van slotting in next to the second on the line for the big fix 

Whilst i was in Germany last year, there was a Gaint Banner on the VW factory in Wolvesburg,  proudly stating that the record for production, was 40,000 Vehicles in ONE DAY, [ majority were Polo's ]  and that is from start of sheetmetal to drive off assembly line, ?

I never said that Jayco is good or bad

My questian was : How many man hrs it takes to make a caravan

all the material used is around $24000 for a normal 21 ft caravan

( and that is for most Caravan builders )

Cheers John

Plendo wrote:

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........................But 40 thousand cars in a day is almost three a minute, I find that hard to comprehend.

The logistics that VW must have around that factory would have to be amazing, just think about the truck traffic alone. Not just the trucks to take the cars away, but the trucks delivering sheet metal, the trucks delivering parts, the vehicles the workers arrive and depart in etc. WOW.

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 Here's a quote from Wiki - the figures are for ALL of Volkswagon's 61 plants around the world and for ALL Brands, VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda - daily world output is only 26,600 vehicles - a far cry from 40,000 a day !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Volkswagen_Group_factories

This list of Volkswagen Group factories details the current^[1] and former manufacturing facilities operated by the automotive concern Volkswagen Group, and its subsidiaries. These include its mainstream marques of Volkswagen Passenger Cars,^[2]Audi,^[3][4]SEAT,^[5]koda^[6][7] and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, along with their premium marques of Ducati, Lamborghini, Bentley, and Bugatti, and also includes plants of their major controlling interest in the Swedish truck-maker Scania.^[8]

The German Volkswagen Group is the third largest automaker in the world,^[9] and the largest in Europe. As of February 2010, it has 61 production plants^[1] and factories in fifteen European countries,^[1] along with six countries in the Americas, Asia, and Africa.^[1] The Group employs nearly 370,000 people around the world,^[1] who produce a daily output of over 26,600 motor vehicles,^[1] and related major components,^[1] for sale in over 150 countries around the globe.^[1]