Munich Day 1, May 13th

Today we visited the BMW factory, where we got to see the operations of the print shop, the process of painting the cars, seat making, and the assembly hall; essentially the creation of the whole car, other than putting together the interior (which we have already seen). They use 98% automation in their factories, so robots will pretty much do everything, and we got to see them weld, paint, and generally just put together the entire chassis of the car. BMW has quite a bit of variation so it was interesting to see how the robots handled it and she explained that everything is planned out far in advance so the robots know exactly what to do. This was the most in depth tour we had and in my opinion the best as we got to see each part get put into place, even got to see the robots do the welds. Seeing the robots in person was completely different then on video, the move so much faster and more efficient in such a small space. Also we hungout at Munich University, tried some new really good food and got to meet some of the Germany masters students.