Porsche Rethinks Traditional Automotive Assembly Lines
ZUFFENHAUSEN, Germany—Engineers at Porsche are setting up a new type of assembly line at its factory here to build a new type of sports car. The all-electric Taycan will be assembled in a “factory within a factory” as part of the Porsche Production 4.0 initiative.
“This development signals Porsche’s move away from the traditional principle of an assembly line,” says Albrecht Reimold, a member of the Porsche executive board responsible for production and logistics. “By applying flexi-line production, [we] will become the first vehicle manufacturer to use driverless transport systems in a continuous series production process.”