Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant
Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ N , 8 ° 59 ′ 24 ″ E The Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen is the largest plant of the German automobile manufacturer Daimler AG . Theplant in the city of Sindelfingen ,which is part of the Mercedes-Benz Cars division , employs around 35,000 people (as of December 31, 2017), including around 10,000 in research and development and other central areas, and is therefore, based on the number of employees, after Volkswagen plant Wolfsburg and the Audi plant Ingolstadt the third largest plant in Germany. In 2015, more than 300,000 vehicles were produced here, which corresponds to around 15% of worldwide sales by Mercedes-Benz Cars. The factory area covers 2,955,944 m², the pure production area 1,305,557 m².
history
The Sindelfingen plant was founded in 1915 by the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft . In the early days, mainly aircraft and aircraft engines, such as the Mercedes D III, were manufactured, which is why the plant had a runway at that time. In 1919 the first passenger car was finally manufactured. After the merger of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft with Benz & Cie., Which was co-founded by Carl Benz . in 1926 the entire body shop of the new Daimler-Benz group was relocated to the Sindelfingen plant. A year later, the vehicles were assembled for the first time using assembly line production , which was introduced by Wilhelm Friedle , the then operations director at the Sindelfingen plant. In 1929 the first press shop was installed in the plant . The term Sindelfingen bodywork became a quality term in the period that followed. Over time, as sales increased, more workers were required. In 1938 the plant employed around 6,500 people.
During the Second World War , Daimler-Benz became one of the largest producers of armaments . This was also ensured through the use of forced laborers who were deported to Germany, of which around 3,000 were women, children and men, mainly from the Soviet Union and Poland, in Daimler's own warehouse in Sindelfingen . Due to the industrial armament potential, the city of Sindelfingen was very badly damaged during the war, and the Sindelfingen plant also suffered great losses. Reconstruction began in 1945, and production of the 170 V was the only one to continue. In 1950, due to increasing production and the relocation of final assembly of cars from the Untertürkheim plant to Sindelfingen, two- shift operation was introduced in Sindelfingen. In 1955, 80,500 cars were manufactured. In 1972 the first S-Class appeared with the Mercedes-Benz W 116 . It was only manufactured in Sindelfingen, which has not changed to this day with the current model of the S-Class ( W 222 ).
From 2002 to 2012, luxury limousines were also produced at the Sindelfingen site by Maybach-Manufaktur , a former division of Daimler AG.
The Sindelfingen plant was Daimler AG's plant with the highest sales until 2015, when it was overtaken by the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen. Approx. 319,000 vehicles were assembled in Sindelfingen in 2015, and approx. 324,000 in Bremen.
production
| year | vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 484.014 |
| 2012 | 424609 |
| 2013 | 402,387 |
| 2014 | 367.313 |
| 2015 | 319.192 |
Currently (as of 2018) the following models are being assembled in Sindelfingen:
- E-class sedan
- E-class station wagon
- CLS
- S-class sedan
- S-Class Coupé
- S-Class Cabriolet
- Mercedes-Maybach S-Class
- Mercedes-AMG GT
- Special protection vehicles
- Mercedes-Maybach vehicles
- GLA (to cover demand peaks)
The Mercedes-Benz Technology Center (car development departments) for design, body and chassis is also located here .
Thermal power station
Since 1960 the plant has had a CHP heating power plant on the plant premises . This means that the Sindelfingen plant covers the entire heat requirement and a third of the electricity requirement. Around 165 GWh of electricity are generated there each year, of which around 65 GWh are sold to Stadtwerke Sindelfingen in the form of thermal energy .
Awards
In June 2008, the plant received the J. D. Power Platinum Award for the automotive production facility with the best quality delivered worldwide and the J. D. Power Gold Award for the S and E-Class series.
The trade magazine Produktion has named the Sindelfingen factory Factory of the Year 2010 in the field of excellent quality management. The jurors at the Sindelfingen plant rated the very high level of product quality, the quality improvements and the impressive increase in performance in recent years as outstanding.
Web links
- The Sindelfingen plant on daimler.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daimler Facts and Figures - Sindelfingen ( Memento from September 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 82f.
- ↑ a b Daimler: Bremen replaces Sindelfingen as the largest production location on focus.de, accessed on November 24, 2016.
- ↑ Mercedes-Benz in Sindelfingen: 100 years of automotive history. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Green Production: Innovative heating technology at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Sindelfingen plant brochure ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at daimler.com, accessed April 22, 2016.
- ↑ JD Power and Associates Reports: Three Automotive Plants in Germany Receive Initial Quality Awards, Including Platinum Quality Award for Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen Plant on finanzen.net, accessed on April 23, 2016.
- ↑ Sindelfingen is Factory of the Year on vogel.de, accessed on April 23, 2016.
