VW Golf 8 production. Factory tour - Documentary
Volkswagen Wolfsburg facility is the headquarters of Volkswagen and serves as a production site for the new Golf, Golf Plus, Touran and Tiguan.
The work of the German car factory in Wolfsburg is based on assembly lines equipped with 6,000 robots. These are super smart robots worth at least $100 million each. In each of their joints is a stepper motor, it rotates discretely, in small steps, so the robotic arm can stop in a certain position without brakes and without clutch. The software for the on-board computers that control the robots took more than a year to develop, but it allowed them to move in 6 axes (just one axis less than a human hand). They can spot weld, cut or glue with unparalleled precision. Robots flawlessly cope with monotonous work 24/7.
In addition to robotics, the Wolfsburg plant employs about 60,000 workers.
0:12 press shop
2:24 welding shop
6:56 paint shop
8:35 body assembly line
9:44 chassis assembly line
10:56 marriage body-to-chassis
12:40 final assembly
13:34 wheels install
14:49 doors install
15:21 testing area
15:48 Wolfsburg facility