Santa Barbara
29-11-2003, 17:57
PCC Newsline
Plans Announced for First MegaFactory™
The Conglomerate, co-operating with primarily Groovelico Fashion Electric, announced plans today to invest in and construct the worlds first MegaFactory™.
"The MegaFactory™ concept is quite simple, really," International Developments Group Director Eric Love says, "We are taking the next step in mass production and mass customization. Although it has enormous production capacity, a MegaFactory™ does not rigidly hold to a set and limited amount of producable goods, but rather an infinite variety. By mass customization, of course, I mean the customer can have the option of choosing the modular components of whatever products they need, or getting a design by their exact specifications. This way, the factory is the nerve center for sales as well, in one smoothly flowing operation."
The first MegaFactory™ will be constructed in central Goletan Plains, on land currently undesirable for even the bravest of investors, but which will soon be flowing with renewed life - and cash.
It will cover 46,225,000 square meters and provide jobs for 1,412,500 workers. Kako Habitat Construction and GFE combined forces to include an extensive, high-tech corporate city to house these workers and their families. GFE has leased areas of the complex out to numerous subsidiary companies of Carter, Barry, Michaelson Chemical, Alcova Technologies, and Xavier-Kerry Communications Systems.
When completed in less than two years, it will, its proponents say, be able to produce 104,000 cars, 98,000 heavy trucks, 76,000 light commercial vehicles, 24,000 buses, 9,000 heavy commercial aircraft, 19,000 light aircraft, 850,000 bicycles, 34,000 advanced propulsion transports, 37,000,000 acoustic and electric musical instruments, and 3,400,000 tons of various industrial chemicals each month. And that's just for starters.
"We're taking the MegaFactory™ concept all the way," Vice Chairwoman Sonya Chang told reporters, "It's the latest show of industrial power that GFE is able to muster, and of course the Conglomerate takes great pride in sponsoring such a vast undertaking."
Later megafactories will have equatable size and production capacity, but only GFE can produce MegaFactories™ and these will be their standard. Later megafactories will be built in foreign countries, where the opening of 1.4 million jobs is welcomed and needed.
Nothing is cheap. GFE announced the initial price tag of $391,000,000,000 to construct, but quickly followed with the projected annual earnings, expected to reach sales of over $195,000,000,000.
The high volume of workers are not used in general assembly lines (automation has largely replaced these dull and unskilled tasks) but in the complex, technical fields, and the overall task of digitally running and maintaining the vast system. The overall process of "customized mass production" offers and requires human presence, if only for taking orders and pushing buttons. A modular approach means that the megafactory not only keeps up with shifting technology, but is the cutting edge of product development and fulfilling customized orders and special projects.
In addition to the factory operators, a Conglomerate selected array of services aimed at improving the conditions and lives of the operators provides megafactory support jobs, including medical, transportation, construction, repair, entertainment, communications, sanitation, security, customer service, executive administration, social services, banking, etc, will all have their venue. Long past are the days when only unskilled workers are provided jobs in the factory.
While skeptics have panned the "eggs in one basket approach," preliminary surveys indicated the majority of Santa Barbarians welcomed the MegaFactory™ idea and placement, particularly with the frightened reports from other nations-- U.N ones, for the most part-- about talk of recession and economic hardships. Certainly, they haven't slowed down GFE any.
"Recession? What recession? We could build a freaking country with this thing, and still see profits within a few quarters!" GFE executive Harry Barns exclaimed.
Plans Announced for First MegaFactory™
The Conglomerate, co-operating with primarily Groovelico Fashion Electric, announced plans today to invest in and construct the worlds first MegaFactory™.
"The MegaFactory™ concept is quite simple, really," International Developments Group Director Eric Love says, "We are taking the next step in mass production and mass customization. Although it has enormous production capacity, a MegaFactory™ does not rigidly hold to a set and limited amount of producable goods, but rather an infinite variety. By mass customization, of course, I mean the customer can have the option of choosing the modular components of whatever products they need, or getting a design by their exact specifications. This way, the factory is the nerve center for sales as well, in one smoothly flowing operation."
The first MegaFactory™ will be constructed in central Goletan Plains, on land currently undesirable for even the bravest of investors, but which will soon be flowing with renewed life - and cash.
It will cover 46,225,000 square meters and provide jobs for 1,412,500 workers. Kako Habitat Construction and GFE combined forces to include an extensive, high-tech corporate city to house these workers and their families. GFE has leased areas of the complex out to numerous subsidiary companies of Carter, Barry, Michaelson Chemical, Alcova Technologies, and Xavier-Kerry Communications Systems.
When completed in less than two years, it will, its proponents say, be able to produce 104,000 cars, 98,000 heavy trucks, 76,000 light commercial vehicles, 24,000 buses, 9,000 heavy commercial aircraft, 19,000 light aircraft, 850,000 bicycles, 34,000 advanced propulsion transports, 37,000,000 acoustic and electric musical instruments, and 3,400,000 tons of various industrial chemicals each month. And that's just for starters.
"We're taking the MegaFactory™ concept all the way," Vice Chairwoman Sonya Chang told reporters, "It's the latest show of industrial power that GFE is able to muster, and of course the Conglomerate takes great pride in sponsoring such a vast undertaking."
Later megafactories will have equatable size and production capacity, but only GFE can produce MegaFactories™ and these will be their standard. Later megafactories will be built in foreign countries, where the opening of 1.4 million jobs is welcomed and needed.
Nothing is cheap. GFE announced the initial price tag of $391,000,000,000 to construct, but quickly followed with the projected annual earnings, expected to reach sales of over $195,000,000,000.
The high volume of workers are not used in general assembly lines (automation has largely replaced these dull and unskilled tasks) but in the complex, technical fields, and the overall task of digitally running and maintaining the vast system. The overall process of "customized mass production" offers and requires human presence, if only for taking orders and pushing buttons. A modular approach means that the megafactory not only keeps up with shifting technology, but is the cutting edge of product development and fulfilling customized orders and special projects.
In addition to the factory operators, a Conglomerate selected array of services aimed at improving the conditions and lives of the operators provides megafactory support jobs, including medical, transportation, construction, repair, entertainment, communications, sanitation, security, customer service, executive administration, social services, banking, etc, will all have their venue. Long past are the days when only unskilled workers are provided jobs in the factory.
While skeptics have panned the "eggs in one basket approach," preliminary surveys indicated the majority of Santa Barbarians welcomed the MegaFactory™ idea and placement, particularly with the frightened reports from other nations-- U.N ones, for the most part-- about talk of recession and economic hardships. Certainly, they haven't slowed down GFE any.
"Recession? What recession? We could build a freaking country with this thing, and still see profits within a few quarters!" GFE executive Harry Barns exclaimed.