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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
The General Assembly Sequence Number is really what we want for this.
But it was not necessarily preserved or available, so we use the VIN for the next best approximation.
It's funny but nobody in the assembly plant cares about the VIN. It's just another part to be put on the correct vehicle, like a tune up label or Mulroney window sticker or SPID. The GA sequence number is the gold source when referring to a particular build.
But, once it leaves the plant, it's all about the VIN. Because it's all they know and have access to, typically.
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Originally Posted by Getter-Done
Worked at an Assembly plant for 17 years.
Yes, The Sequence Number is all the Mangers went by.
Mostly to track defects and make repairs.
I work in Trim then the engine line, then Paint.
They were all Worlds apart on how the vehicles were in order.
The more vehicles produce an hour the less parts the technician would have to put on the vehicle.
With these Trucks being run at 30 something units an hour,
The person probably installed several parts on the truck at their job station.
That would be a little under a 2-minute line speed.
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Some questions for both of you:
1) The sequence number is in on the top left of the build sheet, above the date, correct?
2) At what point is the build sheet printed with the serial number? It seems like the serial number would have to be included fairly early in the process or otherwise perhaps printed on the build sheet after some assembly has been completed?
3) Pretend I have two build sheets. One is sequence number 17647 (w/ s/n 2Z120845) and the other is sequence number 17699 (w/ imaginary s/n 2Z120897) and they both show a 11/12/71 build date. I think you are saying that is 100% safe to assume that sequence numbers in between those two were built on 11/12/71. However, at some point along the way, one of the sequence numbers could have been assigned a serial number outside the range of 2Z120845 and 2Z120897, or at least in a non-consecutive manner. Is that correct?
4) For 100 consecutive sequence numbers, how many of those trucks are likely to have consecutive serial numbers?
Maybe I'll start trying to include sequence numbers. Any other sources for the sequence number besides the build sheet? Firewall? SPID?