Steph McGovern:Hello, I’m Steph McGovern, and I report for the BBC on all sorts of issues and news, to do with business, jobs and money.
Steph McGovern:Now because of my job I get to spend a lot of time visiting places like this, this incredible car factory, to look at how businesses work and how things are going for them.
Steph McGovern:We’re deep inside the Toyota car factory here in Derby, where around 2,500 people make nearly 3,000 cars every single week. It’s a 24 hour operation, where the production lines run along the most precise lines of efficiency. Now Toyota has led the way when it came to this kind of operation, and now car manufacturers everywhere work in a similar way.
Steph McGovern:Everything on this production line is timed to the nearest second. And you pay for any delay. But even though there are lots of machines and robots, there’s still a lot of people-power needed, as James May demonstrates in this clip from the…
