How Refrigerators are Made: Whirlpool Factory Tour - Did You Know?
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The Whirlpool Corp. Kitchen-Aid factory in Lavergne, Tennessee is the location for this story. The factory uses the latest in computer-assisted robotic equipment to create refrigerators, essentially from scratch.
The “Salvagnini” machine featured at the beginning of the story is an amazing example of how computerized automated processes are being used in American factories to ensure top quality and uniform standards.
The elevator tower on the Salvagnini machine stores the sheets of metal that will be stamped, cut, bent and folded to form the entire cabinet of the Kitchen Aid built-in refrigerator. The elevator feeds the sheets of metal, front, back, and side, through the machine in order. In this way, the Salvagnini machine cuts and presses a complete set of cabinetry components for one unit, then starts over.
As the cabinet is being assembled, another team is manufacturing the inside of the refrigerator unit, the “liners”. The sheet metal is painted with the familiar white coating that one recognizes as the inside of the refrigerator. Another computerized sheet metal-punching machine, called an “Omada” prepares the liners for assembly. As the liners take shape, a refrigerator liner, then a narrower freezer liner, they move down the assembly line, ready to be dropped into the completed cabinet units at the end of the Salvagnini machine line.
Any design changes that need to be made can simply be programmed into the computer that controls the Salvagnini and the Omada machines, and the changes are made immediately.
As the cabinet liners are assembled and sealed, a special one-piece unit of “breaker trim” is used to join the units together. This trim is specially designed with no connecting joints, or cracks or crevices that can trap food, and bacteria.
Units are pulled off the line and tested at random for squareness. As our guide, Whirlpool Process Technician Wanda Gannon said, “If we have a problem on the production line, we want to know it now…You need a refrigerator whose doors are going to close properly, that seals properly…you have to have a square refrigerator.”
As the box moves down the line, the unit is filled with insulating foam. Once the foam is in, the interior assembly starts. Shelving brackets and braces are installed, the cooling coils and the refrigeration mechanism is put on, the electrical components are attached, the refrigeration unit is put on top, the internal fan is installed and the doors are attached.
Then the unit is sent to the testing area, where each unit is monitored for several hours before being boxed up and shipped out. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
I'd like to see whirlpool washers and dryers next. It would be interesting to see how they're made.
If you're talking about those godawful VMW top-load dinosaurs and their matching (but even worse) 61 year old top-lint dryers... It might be fun to watch a production line that hasn't changed at all since the early 1960s, but it would be depressing to think about how Whirlpool keeps putting more lipstick on those ancient pigs and charging premium prices for a washer that isn't fit for purpose (but then again, no top loader is, which is why you'll never find a top loader in a hospital, hotel or institutional laundry room lol) and a dryer that feels like it's make from metal roofind panels.
Whirlpool makes the best refrigerators!
Nice video, please continue.
Cool
20 YEARS !?!?
Excellent, we can also install service valves to be used for recovering refrigerant in the future to help control climate change and global warming so we can help protect our future generations.
what year this video is in 1990 ??
20 yrs? In your dreams ! Do you hear about obsolete programed?
lucky to get 10 years with the junk they are making today.
@@frankm5019 Got one over 15 years old, still works perfectly (knock on wood). Just avoid the cheapest chinese stuff and you should be fine.
This plant has been closed for about 20 years years. I wonder how they feel about that European equipment the plant purchased to build the American refrigerators now?
Can you please provide the equipment models for the production machinery, The Salvagnini and the Omada
Thanks for showing the technology. Unfortunately, some of the product you turn out is garbage-my 80 year old mother’s new Whirlpool refrigerator failed after 9 months. Parts are on back-order, so she has had no refrigerator for approaching 2 months now. So apparently it is not convenient for Whirlpool to fix the product under warranty when they need those parts to make new appliances they can sell to unsuspecting new buyers.
UPDATE: at the 2 month mark the same technician returned after the parts were supplied and successfully repaired the refrigerator. It has worked flawlessly since that time. In my opinion the Covid pandemic may have contributed to the delay.
Wow, so they are saying when parts arrive, they would send technicians to come fix the fridge or what?
@@kwaseb they sent a tech who diagnosed the problem and said the parts are on back-order
Nowadays Even new versions could be discontinued due to defective designs
I wonder how many people actually know how to make a refrigerator from scratch
And without the machines help
Me
I know I worked for whirlpool
@@dadosamac do u still?
@@kk5508 yes I think so. Do you need one to be built?😉😉😊
@@dadosamac how do you build from scrap
no insulation in doors????
there is Insulation in Doors. I work in Amana plant. The insulation is foam.
pressure injected at 5min mark
Hmm automation has taken 2/3 of the jobs in the factory pretty much lol
My recent purchase of $4k+ WHIRLPOOL refrigerator is inoperable and unfixable after only 2 years.
built in America this is why older fridges used to last. Now days Chinese crap breaks down after a yr
I get you but American products can be just as crap 💩
It depends on the company practises and standards
Korean even faster
Except when the product doesnt work. No technicians to help. They dont show up for appointments. Leaving me with a $800 paperweight that should be a refridgerator. Hours on hold trying to get a hold of customer service who cant help you at all! so disappointing. will never buy again!
who is here from VIT collage😂
Bhai, 😂😂
my god, seems that each of the workers there nearly morbidly obese.. what a a tragedy..
Whirlpool is like a booth camp. Treatment there is absolutely horrific. No humanity in management at all
20 years😂 whirlpool is trash and will be lucky to last 5
I take that back. It’s an old video and a model that would probably last 20 years.