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36 A plant takes shape
July 2004. Beginning of test operation in the paint shop. The paint robots at
the Leipzig plant – this is another innovation – use only water-based colour
paints and powder-based clear paint and thus the most environment-friendly
paint technology worldwide. As one of the first of its kind, the Leipzig paint
shop will be accessible to visitors. The glass tunnels through which guests will
be guided serve not so much to shield the visitors (as health-damaging and
polluting solvents barely occur with this technology) as to protect the freshly
painted BMW bodies from impurities, such as dust, which the guests might
bring into the facilities.
The new plant is one of the region’s most attractive em-
ployers from the very beginning – more than 125,000 appli-
cations received so far speak for themselves.
New Year 2004/2005. By the turn of the year, the BMW Group has received
more than 125,000 applications for jobs at the Leipzig plant. The Company
has hired almost 2,000 employees by the end of 2004 and trained them
thoroughly at the plants in Bavaria. Gradually, they transfer to the new plant,
some of them having been involved as early as during the plant’s development
phase and the integration process.
March 2005.The “process training” phase has been completed, the systems
have been synchronised and the employees’ training is complete. The plant
is still operating only on a single shift. After months of so-called “integration
operation”, the first BMW 3 Series automobile produced for a customer rolls
off the assembly lines on 1 March. Production quality has been up to the
usual BMW standards for a long time now; the only thing lower than usual is the
number of automobiles produced in the plant. However, this will be increased
step by step in the coming weeks and months until the Leipzig plant finally
runs in phase with the BMW Group’s worldwide production network, thus
attaining “steady state”, as the stage is known in which employees and systems
are adjusted to one another.