+++ Debrecen Plant Director Hans-Peter Kemser: “Another milestone on the road to the NEUE KLASSE” +++ Surrounded by all manufacturing applied sciences: Communication Centre as central hub +++ Already greater than 1,000 workers in Debrecen +++
Debrecen. Employees of the long run Plant Debrecen have moved into the central Communication Centre, the place they’re becoming a member of forces for the ultimate stretch earlier than the official collection launch of the NEUE KLASSE. Debrecen Plant Director Hans-Peter Kemser is happy with building progress: “In just a few months, pre-series production will get underway here in Debrecen, setting new standards – not just for the vehicles themselves, but also for processes here at the plant. The Communication Centre will support us by creating short lines of communication and enabling a good exchange of information between all technologies at any time.” The structure additionally helps the idea of the BMW iFACTORY, which shall be totally applied in Debrecen.
While non-production workers are already settling into their workplaces on-site, manufacturing employees are making ready for his or her future roles at Plant Debrecen inside the firm’s international manufacturing community. This will guarantee a clean begin to pre-series manufacturing in 2024 and the profitable collection launch of the primary NEUE KLASSE mannequin in 2025.
Model of Leipzig central constructing additional optimised
Inspired by the central constructing at BMW Group Plant Leipzig, the Communication Centre in Debrecen will even hyperlink the manufacturing applied sciences of the physique store, paint store and meeting. In Debrecen, this underlying precept was additional developed with the creation of a central constructing the place the community concept is paramount. The open structure offers each assembly areas and sequestered workplaces. The two-storey Communication Centre is about 19,000 sq. metres in dimension; round half of this space shall be workplace house.
The three important manufacturing areas are located across the administrative space. The Communication Centre is not only the place colleagues come collectively, but in addition folks and merchandise: From the physique store, which is adjoining to the workplace constructing on the precise, unpainted automobile our bodies will make their means on a conveyor belt, seen above folks’s heads, by the Communication Centre to the paint store, situated centrally behind it. From there, the painted our bodies shall be transported again by the workplace constructing to the car meeting, which is to the left. This signifies that everybody who doesn’t work straight in manufacturing can nonetheless see the product always.
The multifunctional employees restaurant can be used for conferences exterior of mealtimes. This is situated on the bottom flooring as nicely, together with the central market and well being centre. A state-of-the-art laboratory additionally discovered residence within the Communication Center’s floor flooring space in 1,300 sq. meters. The colleagues of the laboratory shall be chargeable for the premium high quality of the colours of the Neue Klasse fashions. The 700-square meter, well-equipped Health Center of the Plant shall be working within the constructing as nicely to handle the colleagues’ well being and well-being, whereas additionally finishing up prevention and screening campaigns. The higher flooring is occupied by workplaces.
Architectural idea primarily based on ideas of BMW iFACTORY
Digitalisation is taking part in a significant function in building of the plant – the digital begin of manufacturing for Plant Debrecen’s digital twin already befell in March 2023. The significance of digitalisation can also be mirrored within the Communication Centre’s tools. Meeting rooms characteristic fashionable digital components that allow digital collaboration all through the plant and past.
The ideas of the BMW iFACTORY have been already considered through the planning part. 5G expertise is used all through the grounds and paper isn’t seen on the Debrecen plant – which goals to be nearly paperless.
Other assets shall be used fastidiously as nicely. When selecting the furnishings, easy-to-recycle supplies have been most popular, with in depth use of wooden. Plant Debrecen will even function solely with out fossil fuels.