• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

pictures from inside the husqvarna factory

Based on the pictures I would call that "an Italian Art Museum" not a motorcycle factory. I've never seen a 'factory' so clean.

Anyone read Italian?

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Thanks for the pictures! :thumbsup:
 
It's my understanding it wasn't always this way. When BMW took over, the facility that was being used was an absolute dump -you wouldn't have wanted a bike from there...
 
Batch Produce
Missing End Batch
Type of Moto
Moto's to be Produced Today?
Moto's Produced Today?

With Google language and using my own spin I came up with this.


I thought the little arrows where some kind of QC markers, but it looks like there on a display model.
 
Coffee;58499 said:
Based on the pictures I would call that "an Italian Art Museum" not a motorcycle factory. I've never seen a 'factory' so clean.

Anyone read Italian?

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Thanks for the pictures! :thumbsup:
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lines from top
#1 "lot to produce" in this case, 250
#2 ???? but # is same as line 5 and "fine lotto" is "finished lot"
#3 Type of bike in this case, WR250
#4 Bikes to be produced today, in this case, 81
#5 Bikes produced so far today, in this case, 66

Cio'
 
Flying Trash Can;58519 said:
81 motorcycles per day?
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The sign below says "assembly line # 2. assuming theres at least 2 lines also. Working 200 days a year (yes I took out all of August!) and 2 lines making 81 a day is 32,400 bikes. way more than they ever made and close to the fore mentioned ability to make 40k units a year if they had too.
 
BentAero;58503 said:
It's my understanding it wasn't always this way. When BMW took over, the facility that was being used was an absolute dump -you wouldn't have wanted a bike from there...
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I toured the factory right at the BMW takeover and it looked much like it does today! I did not see the motor assembly because it was at the other facility, but the production line and final assembly area looked like they do today.
 
Wow! You could eat off that floor.
Wish my work area looked like that.

Thanks for posting r!
 
Do you remember Roberto Benigni’s Oscar winning moment for the Life is beautiful movie?

Don’t you just want to go inside that factory, step on one of the machines and shout to the workers;
Thank ayou, thank ayou…….you are all abeautiful, I want to kiss all of ayou…..I want to make alove to each and everyone of ayou……..



No?
Maybe it’s just me? :excuseme:

:busted:
 
Joe Chod;58522 said:
The sign below says "assembly line # 2. assuming theres at least 2 lines also. Working 200 days a year (yes I took out all of August!) and 2 lines making 81 a day is 32,400 bikes. way more than they ever made and close to the fore mentioned ability to make 40k units a year if they had too.
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Ya know no matter how many they made you fine people would still want more. :thumbsup:

I've got no idea how many lines are being used.
 
It may be the same building etc, but the production line (the factory as a whole in-fact) has undergone some major improvements to productivity.
BMW's influence has brought 'attention to detail' in terms of how the line runs, the efficiency of the line and the importance of keeping cost down without cutting corners.
If the unbelievers saw it work they would never have any questions about buying a red and white bike.
:applause:
 
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