Sunday, December 18, 2005
Why Nissan scares Detroit's Big Three
The Dallas Morning News
On family day at the Nissan assembly plant, a silver-gray robot from the paint shop faced a blank chalkboard.
Holding a piece of chalk in its single, tubelike 'arm,' the robot wrote: 'Hi, I am Robot No. 1.'
'Then it erased it and wrote it again, and did it all day,' said David A. Boyer, vice president of manufacturing at the plant. 'People loved it.'
On family day at the Nissan assembly plant, a silver-gray robot from the paint shop faced a blank chalkboard.
Holding a piece of chalk in its single, tubelike 'arm,' the robot wrote: 'Hi, I am Robot No. 1.'
'Then it erased it and wrote it again, and did it all day,' said David A. Boyer, vice president of manufacturing at the plant. 'People loved it.'
