While in Munich I was lucky enough to take a tour of the BMW factory. Unfortunately no cameras were allowed in the plant, much to my chagrin. Had they been allowed, I would have roughly a thousand photos up on the blog. I would have tried to discretely take pictures with my phone, but I honestly feared they would burn it had I been found out. The plant is 97% robotic and has been recently updated to the most advanced technology. The painting robots are very impressive, and they even use real ostrich feathers to dusk each car before painting. The welding robots are equally impressive and work at a mind blowing speed with incredible accuracy. They even switch seamlessly from one car body type to the next, be it a wagon, coupe, or sedan. Each car is built to a customers order, and only about 2 cars a year end up being identical, out of 600,000 produced. The Munich factory is the original BMW manufacturing facility dating back to the 1930s and is the headquarters for the company. The plant currently makes the 3 series, the company's largest selling model.
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This is a 1930 BMW 326 on display in the BMW Museum.
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| Every hour a man comes over the loudspeakers in the BMW Museum and tells visitors to clear a path on the main floor and to not be afraid of the noise. This was a bit disturbing at first, but apparently BMW pays this man to ride a dirt bike all around the BMW museum. He rides up and down the staircases doing wheelies and burnouts. All of which is indoors. Very impressive, and very wild. I would expect nothing less from those looney Germans. |
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