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Milestone at BMW Group Plant Steyr: Production amenities for electrical drives accomplished

Steyr, Austria. The new halls for future e-drive manufacturing reached completion on the BMW Group web site in Steyr. Construction started in September 2022, with the topping-out ceremony happening precisely one 12 months later. With some 60,000 sq. metres of manufacturing area, the 105 by 150-metre constructing was erected to a decent schedule. But now it’s standing. “The construction and installation of this production facility for Neue Klasse e-drives is running totally to plan. Now comes the next important stage, which is no less ambitious than the construction of the halls themselves,” defined Helmut Hochsteiner, head of electrical drives on the BMW Group web site in Steyr.

Approx. 300 gadgets of plant and gear price over 500 million euros

Over the subsequent few months, round 300 gadgets of plant and gear – many made to specification – will should be put in, prepared for pre-series manufacturing to launch as deliberate in July of this 12 months. “The 300 machines are all shapes and sizes, from small, individual items to the over 30 metre-long ‘marriage’ station. Here, four robots and other systems will work in concert to fit the transmission to the main motor,” stated Hochsteiner.

Klaus von Moltke, Senior Vice President of Engine Production at BMW AG and Plant Director of Steyr, outlined the financial dimensions of the venture: “We are investing a total of more than 500 million euros in plant and equipment for Steyr, offering further confirmation of the BMW Group’s commitment to the site. Series production of e-drives for the Neue Klasse is scheduled for launch in the autumn of 2025.”

The first piece of plant was introduced into the brand new meeting corridor in the long run of January. The ‘inaugural inhabitant’ is a crane that may elevate energy electronics elements from the primary ground – the place inverter shall be assembled in a clean-room – right down to last meeting on the bottom ground. Once the digital elements have arrived, the inverter and e-drive shall be ‘married’.

By 2030 the BMW Group will make investments some 1 billion euros in whole in e-drive manufacturing at its Steyr facility. The plant will manufacture over 600,000 e-drives a 12 months alongside diesel and petrol models. Production of those will stay excessive as nicely, with combustion engines forming an necessary a part of Steyr’s product portfolio nicely into the longer term.

BMW

BMW Group to construct state-of-the-art Talent Campus in Munich

+++ Cutting-edge coaching centre +++ due for completion in 2025 +++ timber building +++ public café will combine campus into neighbourhood +++

Munich. The BMW Group is to arrange a state-of-the-art Talent Campus in Munich. The new constructing will probably be erected within the northeast of the house plant, on the location of the previous carpark on Riesenfeldstraße. Together with Munich’s current buildings and coaching areas, the brand new construction will kind an open campus that gives coaching and schooling for the BMW Group’s approx. 40,000 Munich-based workers – 900 trainees amongst them. It will probably be dwelling not solely to cutting-edge coaching areas and workshops but additionally a workers restaurant and a public café. In addition, new inexperienced areas will combine manufacturing seamlessly into the neighbourhood. The new Talent Campus will open for enterprise in the summertime of 2025.

“Training and education are key to our transformation and to making the BMW Group electric, digital and circular. With the new Talent Campus, we are investing in a flexible, needs-based education infrastructure for our Munich site and adding another crucial component in the global training and education campaign that will make the BMW Group fit for the future,” mentioned Ilka Horstmeier, Member of the Board of Management at BMW AG, People and Real Estate, Labour Relations Director.

Peter Weber, Director at BMW Group Plant Munich added: “BMW Group Plant Munich is currently preparing to produce the Neue Klasse, and our employees will be crucial to its success. I am very proud indeed that our main plant will be home to a cutting-edge training centre that will benefit the whole of the BMW Group. With the new centre, we are creating the infrastructure needed to ready specialists in every area of car production for the future.”

Martin Kimmich, Chairman of the General Works Council, BMW AG, emphasised: “The BMW AG Works Council has long been committed to this Talent Campus, and we are delighted that our vision is now becoming a reality, with construction about to start. Given the lack of skilled workers, investments in training and education are key for the future viability of our company.”

Timber construction

The new Talent Campus will probably be constructed largely from wooden, which will even be seen on the façade. This will lend heat to the inside in addition to a pure look to the skin. The beneficiant home windows will let loads of daylight into each a part of the constructing for the optimum studying ambiance. The areas themselves will probably be open and usable in numerous methods, with layouts that may be modified and upgraded at any time. This will lengthen the lifetime of the construction as it may be tailored to fulfill altering wants with out requiring main constructing works. The total constructing will supply barrier-free accessibility.

State-of-the-art studying atmosphere

The mixture of cutting-edge tools, a high-tech studying atmosphere and pure supplies will supply excellent circumstances for profitable studying. The Talent Campus will enable BMW Group trainees and workers to develop all the abilities they want for the long run automotive business. It will present coaching and schooling for folks throughout the Munich website. In addition, the purpose is to make chosen areas out there for public coaching programs. The new constructing will incorporate not simply school rooms but additionally workshops, a workers canteen and a public café.