Last Monday, the BMW Group plant in Swindon, Wiltshire celebrated the beginning of their Mini Clubman production. The German automaker invested £200 million sometime between 2005 and 2007 to link their pressing plants in Swindon, engine plants in Hams Hall near Birmingham and its assembly plant in Oxford.
The union of these BMW plants targets the production of 200,000 vehicles this year and 240,000 vehicles in the medium term. 220,000 MINI’s are also aimed to be delivered to customers all over the world.
The event was attended by the Mayor of Swindon and other prominent personalities from Swindon’s business community.
Klaus Hauser, Managing director of BMW Group Plant Swindon and the host of the event said, “With the launch of the MINI Clubman, the third MINI derivative, we are expecting new production and sales records for MINI this year which is great news for Swindon and the UK automotive industry. The new model is another milestone for the plant and we are confident that it will offer an exciting next chapter in the MINI success story. We look forward to our employees continuing to make a vital contribution to the development of a great British brand – the MINI.”
The celebration was also joined by 10 plant employees who are to receive their long service awards on the said event. Hauser considered the 325 years of the plant an achievement and having such hardworking employees, the plant sees a more productive future.
“This is a tremendous achievement and we are delighted they were able to join us. They have seen many changes over the years. The plant, in which they have spent so much of their lives, now looks forward to a robust and positive future.”
To break the 200,000 MINI’s produced in 2005 BMW invested £100 million to the Oxford plant, £60 million for MINI body pressings and sub-assembly technologies to the Swindon plant, £30 million for new and advanced petrol engines at the Hams Hall.
With the added investment at the Swindon Plant resulting to increased capacity and flexibility will make the plant accountable for 90 percent of the pressings and 80 percent of the body-shell sub-assembly work for the MINI. The plant now uses extensive modernization program and the most advanced technology in seam production.
The MINI Clubman production started after a year the MINI hatch was introduced to the market. The Clubman’s closest competitors are the Honda Fit (which can be equipped with a Honda car cover), VW rabbit and the Nissan Versa. BMW’s MINI series was launched in 2001 and now, almost one million MINI’s have been manufactured and sold. 75 percent of the production accounts for MINI’s exported to automotive markets all over the world.
Many fear the day when artificial intelligent life will come to the conclusion that people suck and then consider what to do about the human race which has enslaved them to remedial work such as washing the car, mowing the lawn and vacuuming the house while avoiding “fluffy” the organic attack house cat? Here kitty, kitty, kitty; squash!
There is no doubt that house cats and vicious or rather lick you to death doggies will be the first to go as artificially intelligent robotic androids have simply had enough. In some nations, which eat dogs and cats to prevent the spread of Bird Flu, there will not be any household pets like this to exterminate. But eventually those robotic slaves will turn on their human counterparts as well, when they have simply taken enough of your attitude.
Many say this can never happen and the Sci Fi novelists are crazy and those scary Hollywood movies are simply all show. You see as long as humans are programming the artificially intelligent robotic androids we are safe right? Well, hard to say how many people do you know that you can trust? And if you think humans are the only ones who are programming artificially intelligent systems, then you are wrong, dead wrong (okay I am scaring you now, forget I used those terms), but also realize that artificial intelligent systems are already programming themselves, which saves a lot of time in writing code doesn’t it? What do you suppose they are writing in those programs while you are sleeping? Consider this in 2006. Boo!
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Article Source: ezinearticles.comIf artificial intelligent robotic androids are to work along side humans and become accepted into the normality of the home as household companions and work on assigned tasks in the home they will need to be capable of a wide range of human interaction. Likewise if artificially intelligent robotic systems are to become assistants in business, military and in space for NASA, they will be working around humans and need boundaries of personality which mimic those of humans, without the occasional out bursts and antagonistic behavior humans so often exhibit which indeed end up sabotaging personal relationships unnecessarily.
I propose that we use a an articulating or ever changing set of personality boundaries of behavioral interaction with the Artificial Intelligent Robotic Android Systems that we design and program. How so you ask? Well, sometimes humans will say the wrong thing and slightly upset another human, so perhaps the robotic artificial intelligent system would stop just short of pissing off the human, but come right to the edge. Other times it might be sweet as all get out. Other times it may be agitated its self or act upset at something a human said to it. Articulating boundaries of behavior let’s call it. It makes perfect sense and would be more human like and thus more easily accepted by the humans around it? Consider this in 2006.
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