Episode 26—Assembly News Now
Inside BMW’s New State-of-the-Art Assembly Plant
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BMW operates more than 30 factories worldwide, including Germany, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, China, India, Thailand and the United States. The company’s newest assembly plant opened last October in Debrecen, Hungary.
The factory makes BMW’s iX3 electric SUV, the first vehicle based on the automaker’s Neue Klasse platform. The $2 billion factory was planned and built digitally from the outset. This approach allowed every operation to be tested virtually in advance, so production lines could be installed exactly as in the digital twin.
The state-of-the-art facility is BMW’s greenest, most automated, and most connected factory yet. We take you behind the scenes.
This episode also covers:
- A high-speed automation system assembles electrical connectors.
- A cobot dispenses grease.
- Mazda vows to become more flexible.
- Jaguar uses drones to inspect production machinery.
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