Engine Assembly Line Setup and Flexibility

going to see here in a little bit things of that nature but on this line an operator would do the crank the timing the lifters you know they're going to do multiple steps in one so they have to do more steps when we get to the main assembly line you'll see the build is broke down into like 15 or 20 minute chunks where it's crank install timing install rear seal install piston install oil pan install and it's broke up so we we develop our assembly line based off of what volume we need to hit for the day so we look at the tact time which you think about a drum beat you think about you need to hit a certain target every so often we set up the line to meet that demand is that uh is that part of your job is to like configure all of this stuff yeah so what i you know there's a couple of parts that go with running the shop one is making sure that you have all of the parts in place that we need to have the second is making sure that you get the right people in the right spot doing the right thing and so we invest a lot of time and technology to make that easier for the operator when we first started a lot of the people in the plant probably have the capability to do a lot more of the engine build themselves and as we've increased in size we just have to teach people to be really good at one or two operation as opposed to knowing how to build the whole engine coach you ready yeah ninjas got it so you've got more equipment designed by our engineering team and so i'll give you a quick high-level overview then we'll let ninja show you how it works but if you think about installing rings on a pissed in the old-school way you either got lots of bloody fingers or you got a pair of pliers and you're trying to get that spread and get on there and seated properly the other thing too is if you're doing you know if you're doing thousands of pistons in a day it could be you know one of the failures you could have is to miss a ring which is bad in an engine so our engineering team developed a process that would make it so even somebody who's never done it before like yourself could step in here and be able to install the rings in the right order on the pistons and then once that's done to be able to install the connecting rod in the wrist pin to the piston so we're gonna have him show you how this works and then if you want somebody else to take the camera we'll get a video of it being so simple that somebody who's never done it before should be able to do it but i say never…