The long run comes as commonplace new X2 rolls off meeting line for first time in Regensburg
02.11.2023 PRESS RELEASE
+++ E-mobility ramp-up at BMW Group Plant Regensburg in full swing +++ Extra manufacturing quantity means including night time shift, three-shift operation +++ Plant Director Armin Ebner on begin of manufacturing: Day of encouragement for the crew
Regensburg. It has solely been a couple of weeks for the reason that first images of the all-new BMW X2 went world wide: Now, it’s rolling off the meeting line at BMW Group Plant Regensburg. Any longer, various kinds of drive practice will probably be flexibly manufactured in Regensburg on a single manufacturing line from fashions with inner combustion engines, to plug-in hybrids, to fully-electric automobiles. As much as 1,000 BMW 1 Collection, BMW X1 and BMW X2 fashions are at the moment coming off the manufacturing line at BMW Group Plant Regensburg each workday destined for patrons worldwide.
With manufacturing of the BMW X2 and its fully-electric variant, the BMW iX2, we proceed to set the tempo, right here in Regensburg, for the ramp-up of electromobility, confirmed Plant Director Armin Ebner. That we are actually constructing a second fully-electric mannequin right here in Higher Palatinate will increase the locations manufacturing quantity. The plant director underlined everybody may be very happy with the brand new car and the super crew effort that went into it: For our crew, at this times begin of manufacturing is a day of encouragement. In spite of everything, manufacturing specialists in Regensburg have completed every part doable prior to now few months to combine the brand new BMW X2 silently into ongoing commonplace manufacturing from the preliminary prototypes and pre-series, by means of in depth high quality inspections, as much as and together with complete expertise improvement for the entire manufacturing crew.
Our plant is working at full steam. The extra manufacturing volumes imply we are actually including an evening shift on the Regensburg location, efficient instantly with three-shift operation going ahead, added Ebner.
By the tip of the 12 months, the BMW Group will make investments greater than 350 million euros in car manufacturing in Regensburg, creating everlasting jobs for round 500 new staff on the web site.
Lean, inexperienced, digital: With BMW iFACTORY, the BMW Group can be setting requirements and redefining the way forward for automotive manufacturing on the Regensburg location. For instance, BMW Group Plant Regensburg is the automotive business’s first plant worldwide to make use of an end-to-end digitalised and automatic course of for inspection, processing and marking of painted car surfaces in commonplace manufacturing that depends on robots managed by AI (synthetic intelligence). For the plant, this represents one other step in the direction of the digital, intelligently related manufacturing unit.
