After weeks of waiting we finally took our visit to Mercedes-Benz. As some one who loves cars I was very excited to finally see a car factory in action.
So what did we see? The plant itself was huge, much larger than any factory I’ve been to in the US or Europe. Not only were the building quite large, but were also connected via bridges, which made moving large chassis between locationz easy. The factories aslo use automation in very creative ways. For instance, instead of creating larger square foot floors, the company had a sytem of elevators and conveyors to tske advange of vertical space. Parts of frames would be moved above the assembly lines and dropped down when neaded. In the second plant this same process would be used to move entire chassis around the plant. It was very cool to see the size of the robots and mounting equipment they used while still managing to maintain the tolerance of a single stamp throughout the car. They msnages this by using aeveral different check points, whi CNN were stops on the line thst used lazers to measure the chassis as it was constructed.
A few things bummed me out though. First, the plant did not make the gtr, which is by far the coolest car they make. On a more serious note, they guide they provided was difficult to understand. Normally I wouldn’t think this a big deal, but I was very excited to learn about this plant, and I felt like he had a lot of cool things to say that I just couldn’t hear.
All in all I enjoyed our visit and would reccomend anyone who has a chance to go should.