With Tesla and Elon Musk hitting the news almost everyday on a variety of topics other than manufacturing, it seems like a good time to refocus and revisit one of the most innovative manufacturing processes in action. Tesla, under the leadership of Elon Musk, is breaking the mold in manufacturing and doing just what everyone said he couldn’t do. Musk is confident that Tesla will become the example for mass car production of the future.

Take a few minutes with Elon Musk and enjoy the tour!

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Elon Musk…innovator and visionary. The guy is mass producing electric cars that are sexy, digging tunnels under Los Angeles and trying to go to Mars. When he gets focused on a vision he typically makes it happen, against all odds. Recently, Tesla hit a downturn with manufacturing, and a board of directors who were seeking to remove Musk from his company. Let’s talk about adversity!

It may be a great time to post this inspirational video and recharge with the lion of Elon Musk:

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Elon Musk has always been innovator and a creator. As a child, he daydreamed in an almost trance-like manner and coded his own video games. He always found resourceful ways to make money, and after he graduated from college, he opted for entrepreneurship rather than wait for an internet company to take notice of him. Numerous passions inspired Musk, and today he manages companies and projects that specialize in electric and self-driving cars, private space exploration and Mars colonization, solar energy, and artificial intelligence.

Let there be no mistake¦Elon Musk is a driving force. He is an innovator, a dreamer and a person that refuses to accept failure for anything except another chance to succeed. As an example, during the Q1 2016 earnings call, Musk said he is hell-bent on making Tesla the best manufacturer in the world. That’s not just cheap talk, because Elon Musk seems to really back up his claims. The tale is told that Musk has a sleeping bag in the Gigafactory and it is said that his office is at the end of the production line. His biggest impact is likely coming from his focus on Lean thinking and manufacturing. The design for manufacturing concept is applied to the cars from the beginning of the design process. Musk applies Lean thinking and manufacturing like a religion.

But in typical Elon Musk fashion, he takes things one step further. He also applies Lean thinking and principles to his sales division. There are no third party dealerships with Tesla. When you buy, you buy directly from Tesla.

Elon Musk and Tesla have presold $15 billion worth of cars based only on a concept! This is something no other car manufacturer has ever accomplished. It’s easy to say Elon Musk is as much of a hype-man as he is an entrepreneur. The application of Lean thinking and manufacturing surely have been one of the keys to the great success of Musk.

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Elon Musk is an innovator, a thinker and a problem solver. He is the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX and a co-founder and CEO of Tesla. He is also the co-chairman of OpenAI, founder and CEO of Neuralink, co-founder and chairman of SolarCity, co-founder of Zip2, and founder of X.com, which merged with Confinity and took the name PayPal. Musk has an estimated net worth of $16.1 billion, making him the 80th wealthiest person in the world.

Musk has stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla, and SpaceX revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity. His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the risk of human extinction. His vision is to do this by making life multi-planetary by establishing a human colony on Mars.

Tesla Motors is a company dedicated to producing affordable, mass-market electric cars. Five years after its formation, in 2008 the company unveiled the Roadster, a sports car capable of accelerating from 0 to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds, as well traveling nearly 250 miles between charges of its lithium ion battery. With a stake in the company taken by Daimler and a strategic partnership with Toyota, Tesla Motors launched its initial public offering in June 2010, raising $226 million. Additional successes include the Model S, the company’s first electric sedan. Capable of covering 265 miles between charges, the Model S was honored as the 2013 Car of the Year by Motor Trend magazine. In April 2017, it was announced that Tesla had surpassed General Motors to become the most valuable U.S. car maker.

Watch this TED Talk and spend some time with Elon Musk.

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