BMW plant in Landshut

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BMW plant in Landshut
legal form Component factory
founding 1967 (laying of the foundation stone)
Seat Landshut
Number of employees approx. 4100 employees, including
110 trainees (as of 2016)
Website www.bmw-werk-landshut.de

The BMW plant in Landshut is a production plant of the car manufacturer BMW in the Lower Bavarian capital Landshut .

Around 4,100 employees manufacture engine and chassis components made of cast light metal, plastic components for the interior and exterior as well as cardan shafts and replacement engines, which are supplied to almost all of the BMW Group's automotive and engine plants worldwide.

It has been a competence center for electromobility and lightweight construction since around 2010.

history

In 1967 BMW took over the factory from Hans Glas GmbH and in 1971 the replacement engine production began in Landshut (previously in Dingolfing), the plastics production and the cardan shaft production. At the end of the 1980s, the light metal foundry was relocated to Landshut (previously in Munich). In 1999 the Landshut Innovation and Technology Center (LITZ) opened.

Carbon emblem of a BMW 7 Series

In 2004 production began in the new magnesium foundry and the new replacement engine production facility. A year later, the model building for interior components was rebuilt and in 2007 the vocational training center was opened.

In 2010 the world's first emission-free foundry was built here and in 2012 a production facility for parts made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP, "carbon") was put into operation. In 2015 the foundation stone was laid for the lightweight construction center, which cost 20 million euros and where 160 engineers work; it opened in 2016.

Product portfolio

Around twelve million painted exterior components made of plastic in 32 standard colors and 200 individual colors leave the Landshut production facility for the BMW assembly plants in Munich and Dingolfing every year .

The BMW Group's only light metal foundry is located in the Landshut plant. 3.9 million cast components made of aluminum and magnesium with a total weight of 58,000 tons are currently produced there every year . The scope of production includes engine components such as cylinder heads or crankcases , but also structural body parts and chassis parts such as strut supports, tailgate frames, cast corners or cast nodes for the front and rear axles. The world's first emission-free foundry has been producing in Landshut since 2010 .

Electric motor in BMW i8

In exchange engine production, 21,000 exchange engines are produced annually. Which engines are produced per unit of time depends entirely on customer demand: In exchange for the used engine, the Landshut exchange production facility can return around 1000 different engine variants to the customer. In addition to the production of replacement engines, the production area also operates a technology center for electric drives, where around 30,000 electric motors, for example for the BMW i3 , are produced every year .

The BMW plant in Landshut is the only production facility for cardan shafts in the BMW Group's global production network: employees produce up to 7,000 cardan shafts every day (this corresponds to around 1.2 million a year). Around 6,000 instrument panels, center consoles and glove boxes are produced in the interior production department every day.

CFRP components include the roofs of M vehicles, body parts for the BMW 7 Series and BMW i models, and cardan shafts for the BMW M3 / M4 .

facts and figures

The BMW plant in Landshut employs over 4,100 people (November 2017), including around 110 trainees. They are in the occupations toolmaker specializing in molding technology , foundry mechanics specializing in pressure / gravity die casting , Technical model maker , industrial mechanic , mechatronics , electronics technicians , process mechanic for plastics and rubber technology and business firefighter trained. The proportion of foreigners in the workforce is around seven percent, as is the proportion of women. The proportion of skilled workers makes up over 70 percent. Overall, the average age of the employees is 43.5 years.

The total area of ​​the plant is around 320,000 square meters, of which around 140,000 m² are used for production and around 65,000 m² for logistics.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Landshut location brochure from September 2017 (PDF, 2.6 MB), pages 9 and 11, accessed on November 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b BMW Landshut plant: data and facts . Online at www.bmw-werk-landshut.de. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
  3. ↑ Landshut location brochure from September 2017 (PDF, 2.6 MB), page 7, accessed on November 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ http://www.bmwarchiv.de/werke/bmw-werk-landshut.html
  5. ↑ http://www.auto-news.de/auto/short-news/vergleich.jsp?id=31822
  6. ↑ automobil-industrie.vogel.de of October 27, 2016, BMW opens lightweight construction center in Landshut , accessed on November 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ Landshut location brochure from September 2017 (PDF, 2.6 MB), page 14, accessed on November 11, 2018.
  8. ↑ BMW Plant Landshut, Inner Values, accessed on November 13, 2018.
  9. ↑ bmwgroup-werke.com/landshut, READY FOR THE INNOVATIONS OF TOMORROW , accessed on November 11, 2018 .