Nissan Reveals Its High-Tech Facility

Nissan Motor Co planned to build a 130 billion yen (RM 4.2 billion) factory that manufactures electrified vehicles by minimising consumption and releasing co2 emissions. 

The factory will force technological advances to ensure a well-manufactured factory with “go green” methods that could apply to the next generation.

Due to COVID-19, the automotive industry has lost many employees. A challenge for Nissan by breaking conventional labour and building advanced vehicles in a higher skill is required, hence the intensive scheme’s launch.  

This sophisticated factory holds a mission on how the auto industry will be operating by innovating its production lines using AI, IoT and robotics to produce vehicles with zero-emission production systems.

With the global challenges, the zero-emission production system will help fight climate change and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. All production is electrified after using renewable or alternative energy sources.

Nissan aims to create a better workstation by using robots made to ensure high-precision alignment and practising diversified work styles for both women and the elderly at a convenient facility.

The Japanese carmaker has invested 33 billion yen (RM1.2 billion) on its Tochigi plant located in Tokyo and plans to bring its “Intelligent Factory” throughout Japan and the United States. Kyushu, Oppama and Tochigi are production facilities under Nissan that hold a capacity of 259,000 units annually.

Tochigi Plant is manufacturing the New Nissan Ariya crossover as the first electrified vehicle to be ready. Reducing expensive supply-risk rare metals could help Nissan’s mission towards decarbonised society when an EV vehicle is equipped with a rotor tightly wound with copper wire, especially at high travelling speed.

A human monitor has been installed at the Tochigi Plant control room, ensuring the supervising process is doing well. Employees will also be wearing camera headsets and tablets at the site to notify them whenever an error has been made to fix any error that appears on the screen.

During the final inspection, a digitised human-robot will assess the vehicles for quality checks and remove any human errors reported by information given on the tablet.

With high-tech equipment, Nissan has brought in a new era compared to using human labour as workforces. This time around, fully automated robots will be doing vehicle body bumpers from painting to manufacturing its parts.