20.3.2019 Braunschweig. The group’s Executive Board for component and procurement, Dr. Stefan Sommer, informed the employees of the site in Braunschweig on the first meeting of the year on the latest developments of the Volkswagen group.
To said the progress of the component plans in terms of productivity and efficiency that the plant has achieved significant successes. The consistent orientation of all components-developments in electric mobility the summer, to be referred to so as to an important step: “The factory in Braunschweig is playing by the development and production of battery systems for the upcoming ID. a significant role for the electro-mobility of the group. Especially at the heart of the electric vehicle, the battery system is to put the plant in Braunschweig, Germany for the entire group Standards. The employees have developed a high level of Expertise in this area. At the same time more and more efficiencies and productivity gains must be worked for, in order to secure the long-term competitiveness.“
In addition to current key performance indicators of the Volkswagen group, such as staff numbers, deliveries and key financial indicators suggested the summer there is also a bow to the Braunschweiger indicators such as employment, balance sheet and cost situation. In particular, the stringent alignment of the site on the E-mobility with the components for the vehicles of the next ID.-Family is the way of the future for Brunswick.
But also in the area of the tried-and-tested, conventional landing gear-components, the oldest plant in the Volkswagen group shows that you can increase with equipment and good ideas for both productivity as well as efficiency. The so-called Retrofit measures for the optimisation of old plants and to bring top performance to demonstrate clear results in output quantity, and thus cost-effectiveness.
Summer praised the internal measures of the Transformation to employees on new jobs prepare. The site offers, among other things, training, promoting, in principle, the willingness to Learn, but also individual professional qualifications. For example, employees are qualified internally to the electrician and more – a basic requirement to be able to in the future, in the battery system manufacturing.
“We continue to consistently go in the direction of electro-mobility. So, the new electric vehicles on the Basis of the MEB, as the vehicles of the future ID.-Family, in need of suspension components. For this task, we are well positioned with our experience, our development Expertise and our manufacturing processes very well,“ said plant Manager Werner Gose.
Works Council Chairman Uwe Fritsch said: “It is important that people on the upcoming breaks through the transformation to E-mobility fully prepare, and to involve the employees in width. So the change can be made successfully. The employment security creates the necessary security at all to the profound changes involved.“
Dr. Stefan Sommer, Board member for the component procurement, on the meeting of the location of Braunschweig. (Photo: Volkswagen AG)
