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35
Winter 2003/2004. At the beginning of every week, dozens of buses take
employees from Leipzig to the BMW plants in Bavaria. On Friday evening they
travel back again. 1,500 Leipzig BMW employees spend time in the Munich,
Dingolfing and Regensburg plants to prepare for their tasks in Leipzig. “Training
camps” of this kind last between six and twenty-four months.
The advantage of experience: the Leipzig plant builds on all
the automotive engineering know-how accumulated by the
BMW Group over the past 75 years.
In the meantime, the first of a total of 1.6 kilometres of assembly lines are ad-
justed in the still unheated halls of the Leipzig plant. Each day suppliers trans-
port machines, robots and materials to the site. This is the most strenuous
phase for the assembly planners. Some of them were involved in developing
the BMW plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Put more generally, the experi-
ence that the Company has accumulated and taken stock of over the years is
integrated into the plant’s design. “Ultimately, Leipzig is the essence gained
from75 years of automotive engineering in the BMW Group”, says one of them.
The point is that the plant will not only be “state of the art” when it is opened,
but will continue to grow as the market, technologies and development of the
BMW Group require. For however permanent its outer shell may appear – it is
designed inside as an extremely lively, learning organism.
Mid-2004. Module suppliers for the BMW 3 Series move into the four supply
centres on the grounds of the Leipzig plant. What is unusual is not only that
the suppliers set up shop directly on the grounds, but that, for a limited time,
the BMW Group will let them utilise its own infrastructure. “This is a new form
of cooperation for us”, explains Peter Claussen, Plant Director. “Being so close
together means we can be up and running more quickly and cope with prob-
lems more easily. In short: the risks become more manageable for both sides.”
July 2004. The first five kestrels born on the grounds are ringed. They are to
help control the number of pigeons (and thus the pollution they cause) at the
plant. The first apples ripen on trees planted in the courtyard of the central
building.