Disclaimer: I also am writing about Mercedes-Benz, so if you’ve read other students blogs on this you probably won’t read anything new here. If not, I guess you might as well read this one.
Here we go. Today we had the opportunity to tour the Mercedes-Benz manufacturing in Bremen, Germany. I’ve never considered myself very in to cars, so I probably wasn’t as excited about this visit as some other students on the trip. However, as soon as we stepped into the the visitors center I was fascinated. From the energetic tour guide we had and the car models they had on display, to the massive manufacturing buildings and amazing robots that we saw in action, the 2 hours we spent touring te facities flew bye for me.
As we walked through the facility it was incredible to watch the robots work on all the cars. I always imagined that robots at these places were designed to make one type of car, but these robots were able to work on parts for 10 different car models interchangeably.
Some of the quick stats that stood out to me over the tour were that this facility:
- produces 1,800 cars a day and 420,000 cars year
- Has 12,000 employees and a ridiculous amount of robots (that’s a lot of people and things to keep in order).
- Produces cars for over 200 other countries
By the end of the tour I had decided that this was my favorite of the tours we had. Maybe it’s because we were able to sleep in today, so I had some extra energy, but I think it had more to do with the overall tour experience. Mercedes-Benz is really a very cool place to tour and if you find yourself around a manufacturing facility I’d recommend giving it a look.
Looking forward to getting back to America!