HelloOLA,
The #400kOlaS1 celebration gave me a chance as an #EVChampion to visit OLA Future Factory.
As it already made headlines for being the biggest factory India has ever seen, I imagined it as the biggest possible factory, and my imagination felt smaller when I was in front of “The Mighty Future Factory”
A lot of brainstorming might have been undergone while designing the plan for the “FF” and after years it looks as good as if it is just been inaugurated.
The design of the factory is tour-friendly, We can see every stage of the scooter being manufactured and it is amazing to see high-tech tools provided to workers so that they can do their jobs effortlessly. As everything is made in the house all the department works with rhythm, everything is connected so the progress of every scooter is marked and the inspection team can check the progress any time if anything is wrong it is notified in real time so that a quick rectification can be done and the plant keeps rolling out scooters.
the battery making is a crucial part, where they put together cells and make a battery pack, we have seen 1000s of battery packs ready to assemble.
I was excited to see the robots roaming around the factory, All the material movement is made by robots, they move around on their own. crazy tech!
the chassis gets ready, it is welded and painted properly before it goes to the assembly line
the factory has an amazing paint facility, where they can produce so many colours in different finishes too like glossy and matt.
the assembly line moves as the parts are assembled by the workers, it is a complete line that at the start a chassis enters and at the other end the scooter rolls out. this is where most of the work happens and it is fast, they produce more than 1000 scooters a day. currently, they are doing it with Gen 2 design.
after the scooter is assembled they test it on DINO where a maximum speed test is done with every mode like a manual, sports, and hyper, when the barcode is scanned, all the parameters are set automatically depending on the scooter. for example, if it is OLA S1X+, the top speed would be 95kmph, so the test will go like that only.
After passing DINO they go for an actual outdoor run on the test track, my god that is an excellent job to check the scooter on track, minute observation of the scooter making sound, is everything works fine or not. that is the final test and the scooter is parked to get charged, where they let the scooter discharge and charge it again to 100%. every scooter leaving the factory must have at least 50% of charge.
And Now the scooter goes to the customer, an amazing journey isn’t it?