This is according to Hubert Hartmann, head of the A3 body shop at Ingolstadt, who describes the automated plant... It is like a Swiss watch, with the same level of precision.
Audi is said to have the most modern factory floor of its kind, where a high level of automation has been married with many other advanced manufacturing technologies.
The result? Audi has realized a reduced demand for untrained workers -- while at the same time increasing their demand for more trained, more specialized workers.
How Audi drives innovation on the automated body shop line illustrates how German manufacturing is moving forward. In fact, Germany remains the global leader in many manufacturing sectors, with automation as one of the main reasons why Germany posted a record trade surplus last year.
Read this article from a recent issue of the MIT Technology Review clearly outlines what we can expect to see in the production of vehicles in the next 5 years.
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