Club car Aces Assembly: Golf car manufacturer uses sophisticated fastening tools to error-proof assembly

摘要

It happens every year on every golf course in America. Some goof has a few too many and drives his golf car into a pond, a tree or another golf car. There may be a "loose nut" behind the wheel, but there won't be a loose fastener anywhere else-not if the engineers at Club Car Inc. (Augusta, GA) have anything to say about it. The company goes to great lengths to ensure that every nut, bolt and screw is tightened correctly on every golf car, all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and utility vehicle that rolls off its assembly lines. "If a mistake is made on the assembly line, it's never the operator's fault. It's our fault for not making the system error-proof," asserts Club Car manufacturing engineer Gerald Skelton.