Aqui tenemos un articulo muy interesante de un Tour por la factoria VolksWagen....

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Fuente: VWVortex.com

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Volkswagen Factory Tour
By by: Jamie Vondruska
November 5, 2001, 15:16

Somewhere along the way, every Volkswagen enthusiast should try to visit Wolfsburg, Germany, the headquarters of Volkswagen AG. There is little that can prepare you for the complete immersion into a world of Volkswagens when you arrive. From the time you enter the city of Wolfsburg there is virtually no car to be seen that isn't a member of the Volkswagen brand family - Volkswagens are everywhere. Fans of the marque may feel like they have died and gone to heaven here. From the rare air-cooled split window bus to modified Golf IV models with flared fenders to the New Beetle RSI, there isn't anything we didn't see on the streets and in the employee parking lots.

Nothing can prepare you for the shear size of the factory either. The factory grounds covers 8 square kilometers (3 square miles). The four signature power station chimneys tower more than 410 feet in the air. The twin 20-story car towers next to the Kunden Center (customer delivery center) in AutoStadt are quite a site with every slot filled with cars from ground level to the top. The 1.6 square kilometers (395 acres) of indoor factory facilities could easily accommodate the entire Principality of Monaco. Volkswagen calls this factory a group of factories inside a factory largely decentralized and autonomous in their organization.

The Golf, Golf Variant, Bora, Bora Variant, Lupo and soon the new Golf V based MPV are all built at the Wolfsburg factory. Scheduled capacity per working day is over 3000 vehicles. In addition to this, the Wolfsburg plant manufactures components such as drive shafts, body stampings and more for other Group factories.

What follows over the next several pages is a general overview of many areas of the factory. Since photography is not permitted in the factory, we are limited to the photos that Volkswagen has provided for us. We could have easily spent 2-3 days wandering the factory asking numerous questions and driving our German hosts crazy in the process. Instead we spent 3 hours privately touring the factory and came away with a new sense of the magnitude of what is involved in bringing your Volkswagen to you, but also the tremendous amount of money that Volkswagen has spent over the last 10 years upgrading nearly every piece of equipment. What you see here is a small snapshot of the blueprint used at all Volkswagen brand factories worldwide. Much of the same equipment, methodologies, work environments, layouts and more are carried over to all group factories - perfect the process and duplicate it. Whether your car is built in Mexico, Brazil, or Wolfsburg, there is virtually no difference in the process used to build your vehicle.

Factory tours are available directly as part of admission to AutoStadt, Volkswagen's cultural, architectural, and historical visitor center. We will have a separate story on AutoStadt itself in the future. So on to the tour...





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