This afternoon we took a tour through the Mercedes-Benz assembly plant here in Bremen, Germany. This plant produces the mainly the C-Class and E-Class vehicles along with an assortment of other models.
The size of this site was humongous. They employ 12,500 people and produce 420,000 vehicles annually. Seeing the large scale manufacturing process was amazing.
The most impressive for me though was the production of the car frames. The whole process is 95 percent automated which is quite the feat of engineering. In previous internships, I’ve worked at small-scale manufacturing companies, but those processes were now where near 95 percent automated. Being able to program these massive lines and hundreds of robots takes the expertise and funding that only a huge corporation can provide. It was amazing to see something like that in person.