Detroit Goes Digital: Inside Ford's Virtual Manufacturing Review

Posted on 2010-06-04 12:57:56 by Thomas De Maesschalck

A Ford factory worker toes up to the bumper of a Ford Fiesta, dips down over the engine compartment, and clips in one lead coming from a multi-headed hydra of wires leading back to the car's brain - the ECU. It's only one in thousands of steps required to turn a pile of steel, plastic and leather into the Fiesta that will eventually drive off the assembly line under its own power, but remarkable because the connector doesn't actually exist.



Link: Digitaltrends



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