on project cassandra in 2016 1st. our 3 pod documentary series on marketing has paula stats may 4th on d, w. the 3rd, everything from your phone, headphones on computer, to wind turbines and batteries, the power electric cars on scooters, graphs. but despite the name, then not some sony must, but comprise 17 crystal and heavy metal elements found in rock deposits. right us are a precious commodity for high tech societies. with most of that production currently controlled by china. start us and say tional discovery in sweden, braces the possibility of them being binds add to also in this edition have made some extra costs. china is a challenge to europe across the tests. how safe is the old package to a jet fund?

digital twin has a new life for a factory in india. some lapland, and the arctic circle is home to huge expenses of pristine nature and also to deposit to route are precious raw materials that i've seen a rapid growth in demand from industrialized nations. drilling teams at a range of locations are collecting rock samples from the ground down below. the operation is being funded by swedish mining company l. k, a b, which anticipates a new gold rush. the team here is currently still busy identifying and analyzing the potential sites before those to causes our mind sometime in the future. the

kind spokesman is also on hand to inspect proceedings. we are stealing branding and cannot see where it ends. we haven't bailed deeper than 2000 meters from the surface. and we have found more than 700000000 tons of iron ore and sun mom. point 3000000 tons of rarer oxide. so it's divided good deposits and we think that we have explored perhaps a quarter of it so far. they've literally found new end to the rear earth deposits to the they're taking your sample from a depth of 7900 meters down. the operation is made international headlines due to the discovery of the 1st known rare earth deposits in europe. this device records the depth of the relevant site to within a centimeter. in total, the teams are taking several 1000 samples,

which are catalogued by depth geologist, sean j. he takes away the samples for further analysis and the live he's one of a 5 strong team working there on shift the geologist, tail from a variety of countries showing drinking himself is french. the sample analysis stage, conducted prior to the development of the site will cost the mining company many millions of bureaus. i can go and scratch the rocks and see so this, this part is really hard. i need to to press and press harder and this year is softer now, so it gives me, gives me information. um uh, what kind of narrow it could be. the material samples are actually 50 percent iron or, and have

a rear or content of just 0.2 percent. they also contain significant levels of phosphate, which will later be sold to fertilizer producers. so this as a bonus, we get one mining the ion or that's the main idea. while we're operations, once we get that this free to go to organize here is as a byproduct. as a bonus, china is dominating the market. but this deposit the patio deposit is the biggest report bed that pulses in europe. so here has very big importance for the sense the efficiency of the you all the critical enrollment here at the rear or it's would then be extracted from material mind from newly created tunnels belonging to the neighboring mind. without reference, we'd have no screens or displays no magnets for wind turbines, no electric cars, and indeed, no green energy transition. but the plan

certainly have their critics to every year the indigenous semi people drive their reindeer, several 100 kilometers from east to west and back again. in addition to the pollution, the mine would block the animals trail, says one rain gear farmer. they will open up more mines and that's will, i guess, totally destroy the, the rain, to hurting in this district in this area. and this saw me released and you can say we're kept move to the south. we can move to the north. we are stuck in the south a spokeswoman for the semi community association points out those obstacles from craters and a new compromise to lakes full of mine, water, railroad tracks and highways the

traditional grazing areas for each semi colon measure around 80 by a 100 kilometers the new mind, right in the middle would block all of the animals routes. well, it would be at the end for a traditional lorraine, they're hurting in, in my community and the community of god, not. and the it would, the a, have a, a deep impact on our culture and our future. so what does the spokesman for the mining company have to say? it is quite narrow for right. and they're hard to bring the rain. there is a task in or not from the mountain as we ask where they are during the summer. it's down to the forest that we us in the winter time. we want to find on suicides, through shows in dialogue with the summer village, the river, or it's beneath those migration routes amount to at least 8 times annual global

consumption and mining. the resources so close to home would reduce europe's dependency on china and russia for supplies. i mean growing global's engines in europe, the new portion tie con to but west will set you back to 130000 euros. mercedes h u. s. cost almost a $110000.00 on the audi q for each one just over $53000.00 b, w, use id 3 starts at around $37000.00 euros. and those prices for jim and electric cars are all with no extra features included. to pricey finch showing these models are an option, but all the competitive performance wise to in crash tested cars made by china, b, y d have performed just as well as their european rivals. right now

there's a growing backlog of b y, the cars and the german port of frame are often due to insufficient demand. but having sold more electric cars than anyone else in the last quarter of 2023, the car maker is not putting the brakes on its expansion strategy across germany, new b y, the show rooms are popping up like this one in berlin. for most customers, it's their 1st look at the chinese vehicles. they're used to driving a vw, mercedes or a rental for are curious to check out both the design and engineering of models, 5 millions of 10 ton and also include before you get the nice feel very comfortable, i'm going name is it's the mood. it's been that you felt the workmanship as comp. it's a great brand, the total mind. it's a perfect fit for us as a family. yeah, it's a kind close to for media. first of all. perfect. right. these seem very similar to the europeans, but are they as well constructed?

we'll have to see, but i'm sure they'll have put in a lot of effort. a mom, the show room manager is a no doubt that the cars will find plenty of buyers to be why d makes its own batteries as well as crucial chip components in its own factories. a lot of potential buyers are surprised by the high quality of materials and a fine german standards. generous array of in car entertainment upfront prices for a b y d model. here start at 29000 bureaus. also has to look at how comfortable competitors are faring and not overdue things are you see the seal as a direct drive on the test lot and it's entry level price isn't just the low tesla models v y d explorer ships can transport up to 7000 the electric cars, the company is planning to dispatched further 8 of them on the route to europe, with an eye on conquering the huge market here the,

on its domestic market, b, y, the out sales us arrival to fly. as electric cars become the subject of a brutal price for production capacities for huge bonds a minute, not to still call for the modern other night shift or continue production all weekend. and china could easily be turning out the 1000000 cars a year. but interestingly, domestic demand only 23000000 means a difference of 27. us demand is at 14000000 and here of 13 to me on so china has built capacity. so a norm is to think it covers the entire world. a figures like that have prompted the you to consider introducing unit of tariffs due to b, y these excessive states subsidies. one possible way of stomach, the tide of chinese ease, anticipating those tariffs. the might be as intending to build a factory in the u on this patch of countryside and southern hungry. but the 1st of

digging will be by an audiologist, roman era artifact stating back more than 2000 years to been found here. for centuries, the area was used as pastor land for grazing callous. that discovery could mean serious delays for construction work. but d y d expect it's cars to be rolling off the line here next year. so will the project have to be halted? the solution, making sure that it's not in our interest and of course we don't plan to do that. we're working closely with other institutions that are carrying out archeological work and with investors so that we can do our job and they can do. there is with a minimum of interruptions, good hungry is a popular spring board for chinese companies in europe. budapest is home to one of the biggest chinese communities on the continent, and soon thousands of workers are expected to arrive from china to build the new z

y the factory. this could also see part of china's surveillance system coming to hungary, which would mean china gaining access to hungary, on camera surveillance networks. the 2 countries have now signed a security packs on gary and police could soon start to be accompanied on st. patrols in budapest side, chinese security personnel, the leader of the opposition and the hungary in parliament, fears that the arrival of b y d will have adverse side effects. and i don't think they will to deal with this. the same social credit system that works in china. but even if they bring in the camera system and the facial recognition system, that is something that could be, could be very much used by a autocratic government. b y d is confident of selling eaves on the european market, but it could also mean the import of more than just the chinese electric cars.

so what is your response to chinese export sprint? how about working hand in hand and collaborating? don't you develop vehicle platforms, power trains, batteries, and driver assists with safe comic is huge research outlays and make the end product cheaper as already seen and the end of the tech stuff to pricing for the global market. european electric vehicle makers are under pressure. i can see the point coming very quickly, you know, 2030 i think is really the critical moment for this industry. if i'm not prepared by then is to like time for europe to take back the initiative to this european joint venture. be a model to follow air bus as production split up across a number of nations with the plants all working in close coordination with each

other. it's a concept that secured the future of europe to aircraft manufacturing industry. does europe car sector now need a similar move? an air bus moment? well, there are few in industries been talking about a range of different solutions. right now have been floating, the idea of that kind of car industry equivalent of a of us wherever. when he gets together and produces this, assume of that sort of vehicle. the trouble is that already there's been a huge amount of investment and a big investment pipeline coming in on batteries and relate to technologies. and that's very much stuff to discuss with across to your of it shared amongst different manufacturers. there are over 120 car factories in europe, turning out models for numerous manufacturers and a myriad of models and make a set up that is proven very profitable. so far, the i'm saying i'll be interested in how to makers have been making various

attempts to develop their own individual solutions. but there are now a range of major issues that require solutions very soon was a portable book, which is actually on lose a one phone bad. listen, i live in constant activity and digitalization mathnasium, dis, altos, one of the next hour to an evaluation to got to the line. so even for a traditionally successful car maker, that's a huge task and one that's better solved through joint project based. so done in these dimensions pull yeah, can with this quote parts to understand which means cooperation. but how would that work for? no, and mercedes have set the precedent with the tween go in for door smart models, sharing the same technical platform, which is a little surprised when you look at them. the venue in companies doing joint ventures involving identical vehicle platforms and also means a challenge for that model to stay sufficiently distinct and not become interchangeable. image also, spotswood bad brand image and awareness are priceless for companies. although also

a big hurdle for closer cooperation. but growing costs, pressure is mean they have few alternatives. we're going to have to state some fundamental sharing of engineering not on a piecemeal based. it's not between per show and run of overdoing volkswagen and ford. but for the industry. in other words, an air bus moment. the idea here is to lower costs and maintain competitiveness by developing a joint car construction platform. it is a long road ahead. however, arriving at that sort of compromise is extremely difficult. something has to get somebody has to be prepared to allow losses in their own manufacturing losses in their own production versus losses in that countries where some of these vehicles are being produced. because we cannot sustain the existing capacity on this

existing fragmentation of the industry. for very much longer, that kind of collaboration is still a long way off. in the meantime, the us launched an entry dumping investigation into those unwelcome competitors from china. aircraft of themselves been in the news recently due to doors disappearing, mid flight on computer malfunctions, almost causing a crash. all they still a safe way to travel. the problems of most have been due to pull her to assembly with the individual components being put through pretty rigorous, testing for the name of passenger safety. just how much stress kind of that plan would start and have you ever ask yourself this question when your flight runs into severe turbulence, the wings of this as us can bend by up to 5.2 meters.

so the well equipped to hold up against the strongest gust of wind an airplane can also fly with just one engine, provided it can keep the plane flying at 250 kilometers per hour. in preliminary tests, f, i'm pause, need to withstand as much wear and tear as they do over the aircraft this entire life time. that's often more than a $100000.00 flights. kinda cloud of water spray stole the acro sanctions. one of a range of tests before a plane is declared elworthy aircraft to construct it to meet safety requirements but not to over fill, fill them stick. a fuselage is for example of extra weight and therefore increase

fuel consumption. don't be alarmed. all start twitching your seats. here, vertical, take off site, this prove just how much all planes can be an emergency situations. well, the boeing did this just to show the maintenance the technicians always keep an eye on plane windows because they're a natural weak spot in at craft. the riskiest parts of a flight all take off on landing to make them safer. tests are conducted to determine the optimum speeds to ease your mind. just remember when it comes to vital instruments like the altitude, indicate that an aircraft always has more than one plus, while several 100 people die and playing cautious every yeah, the sun show that more people are killed on their way to the airport pop something

to bear in mind, the next time you encounter inside turbulence is know when now safe from the intrusion of robots. they work in fine to raise with us or each other and can also support the human co workers via virtual reality headsets. and now there's another news i mentioned computer technology that enables factories and products to get digital twins, thousands of miles away. sounds 13, stay tuned. the almost 50 years old. this evening's factory was in danger of being shut down before being saved by digital tweeting technology that replicates product. so process is launched here in the indian city of cottonwood 10 years ago. it's proved to be

a game changer. the head of seaman's indian operations is proud of his team success story. so we thought, let's apply the digital technologies that we are talking about to our own manufacturing strategies here, uninsured. we went from 80 variance on 3 production lines to a $180.00 variance on one production, like in addition to saving money, it's also help to make production faster from 21 seconds per part for the change down to just 9 seconds. back in germany, around half the population of this small town book said, bush that sold this plant in law a mine makes hydraulic components. and just like in india, the digital tweeting technology can have a massive impact on operational processes. and so the industrial sector is a model for us as bush wrecks wrote. a digital twin is made for each product. and of course,

we also have applications in the automotive area where we also create twins for both the vehicle and the parts supplied on to the bottom of my knowledge. think it's on, it's getting a few to start talking about 50. so really cutting, tied up from automakers to engineering companies, firms, so finding digital twins, indispensible, the new technology already has its own industry association based in germany to promote it on the international market. the springfield, german and your opinion industry spend the association and committee work. and the development of standards means we have a pioneering role. we have a growing number of members, especially in connection with the digital twins that includes japan and south korea where they're taking a closer look at what german industry is doing in this area. i'm from device in co was. siemens has a production site, a large number of programmers, and also its own training center. new recruits, learn how machines can support their work or potentially even do with themselves.

but the trainees see the set up not as a threat, but as the next step in industry, with prospects for them to this is the, i'm 5900, colbert labradoodle. what's the difference between the code word and what is called? what can collaborate with human? very easily and will look mutes, it's individual space to us. it's, it has a 3 button, and it's an more do from which we can reduce the time of programming drastically into that. i want to work with the, with those companies will walk thoughts, mark, manufacturing, digitalization and digital india. still eager to learn from germany's mid sized business model, the middle stand. we can learn an india from the experiences of the german middles, done. but the indian middle stand is much smaller than the german middle style. and that's where we have the ability to adapt to the environment, adapt to the situation in germany,

the team at bush likes or is currently creating new parts from a 3 d printer models for hydraulic components. this unique generates pressure for a hydraulic press, used to make car doors, for example, the digital twin was tested here. it can display the entire supply chain of a product. you know, thing that means you're digital twins to collect and provide all the data generated across the entire life cycle support from the production t used by customers site when it's, when queen inch dean on decent docking to sell mode, so fulfilled them switched on this put sponsors step ahead of the competition, given the use plans to require verification of supply chains in various industries by 2026, which is already the case at the plant in india to with just the fraction of the workforce allowed to work in the factory during the band demik,

the prior digitalization of operations meant that the jobs were actually save the shooting portion. that okay, so nevada, this, this was what am i, this will do for home and that, so we put a 2 minimum number and maximum products in, in the front of the team in india are convinced that even supposedly old school production can change regardless of the company size, this is not only for the big boys. right? again, we are saying we've been able to demonstrate in a 50 year old factory that it is possible. the challenge is really, 1st in the mind, the adoption, we need to adopt this because that is what will make us competitive. and with this digital factory leading the way others will be eager to follow that shit for another episode of maine with the treasured roads in sweden,

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