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6th Grade Career Day: A Visit to GM Production Plant

December 22, 2017

6th Grade Career Day: A Visit to GM Production Plant

Of all the career day field trips I have attended, this one was the most memorable and educational. Our class of 6(10) went to the Shanghai General Motors Production Plant, where your parents’ Buicks and Chevrolets are all manufactured.

The first stop of our tour was at the exhibition room, which held some of GM’s greatest designs. There were the latest Chevys, and the future Cadillac concepts to be released a few years later, and there was even a replica of the first ever GM car produced in the 1900s. Next, we went to the framing station, where doors, hoods, and trunk flaps are sealed together to form the car skeleton. It’s probably the largest assembly line in China, a marvel of construction.

I researched a ton of information about assembly lines for my PBA, but this was my first time to see one up close. Believe me, it’s a hundred times more spectacular than a Google image.

At last, we came to the finishing station. Rows and rows of car seats and tires were stacked. The skeleton turned into a normal, functioning car as the industrial robots precisely screwed on every tire, lowered the engine block under the hood, and sealed on the lights. The car was taken on a test drive for a few meters, and had its exhaust tested. A new car ready for the market was born.

I was really glad we got to go on this field trip. We saw mind-blowing things about production plants that you would never get to know otherwise!

(Written by 6(10) Mingming Pictures by Lily Yao)