“Question every requirement. Each should come with the name of the person who made it. You should never accept that a requirement came from a department, such as from The legal department, or The safety department.
You need to know the name of the real person who made that requirement. Then you should question it, no matter how smart that person is.
Requirements from smart people are the most dangerous, because people are less likely to question them. Always do so, even if the requirement came from me.
Then make the requirements less dumb.”
In building his giga factory at a meeting of his team, Musk pulled out a toy car and put it on the white conference room table. ‘Why can’t we do that?” He asked.
Out of that question, the Gigapress was born. The machines inject bursts of molten aluminum into a cold casting mold, which can spit out in just eighty seconds an entire chassis that used to contain more than a hundred parts that had to be welded, riveted, or bonded together. The old process produced gaps, rattles, and leaks. “So it went from a horrible nightmare to something that is crazy cheap and easy and fast,” Musk says.
The process reinforced Musk’s appreciation for the toy industry. “They have to produce things very quickly and cheaply without flaws, and manufacture them all by Christmas, or there will be sad faces.” He repeatedly pushed his teams to get ideas from toys, such as robots and Legos. As he walked the floor of the factory, he spoke of machinists about the high-precision molding of Lego pieces. They are accurate and identical to within ten microns, which means any part can easily be replaced by another. Car components need to be that way. “Precision is not expensive,” he says. It’s mostly about caring. Do you care to make it precise? Then you can make it precise.”
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