Volkswagen Golf 8 production: Factory tour in Wolfsburg
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- VW Golf 8 production. Factory tour - Documentary
Volkswagen Wolfsburg facility is the headquarters of Volkswagen and serves as a production site for the new Golf, Golf Plus, Touran and Tiguan.
The work of the German car factory in Wolfsburg is based on assembly lines equipped with 6,000 robots. These are super smart robots worth at least $100 million each. In each of their joints is a stepper motor, it rotates discretely, in small steps, so the robotic arm can stop in a certain position without brakes and without clutch. The software for the on-board computers that control the robots took more than a year to develop, but it allowed them to move in 6 axes (just one axis less than a human hand). They can spot weld, cut or glue with unparalleled precision. Robots flawlessly cope with monotonous work 24/7.
In addition to robotics, the Wolfsburg plant employs about 60,000 workers.
0:12 press shop
2:24 welding shop
6:56 paint shop
8:35 body assembly line
9:44 chassis assembly line
10:56 marriage body-to-chassis
12:40 final assembly
13:34 wheels install
14:49 doors install
15:21 testing area
15:48 Wolfsburg facility - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
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I am a manufacturing engineer and seeing how the cars are made from the VW factory, I am thoroughly impressed. The robotics are amazing
I am a certified custodian, I am impressed as well
No one gives a fuck
I think a manufacturing engineer is pretty amazing.
Since there are almost nu humans involved these cars should be so much cheaper
@@gerardfreek2044 how much do you think one robot costs vs a human paycheck?
03:35 "equipped with 6000 robots worth at least $100m each".
6000 X $100m = $600bn. The market cap of the entire VAG group is $62bn.
It is an American telling the BS.
exactly what i noticed, those robots cost usually 70k~600k , so the total value of the robots alone would be pretty much 1,2bn or so.
strike that, basic robot made by KUKA starts from 11k but has no equipment, so at 70k it would have full equipment, reducing the total costs from 1,2bn to like 400 millions or so
it's english ai voiceover with video taken from elsewhere. you need to understand this new future @@MrLeovdmeer
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I visited Wolfsburg on a day trip (from Berlin) in October 2023 and got lucky with a space on the VW factory tour, it's a nominal amount (from memory about 15 Euros). That stamping shop at the start of this video - again from memory I think our guide said it covers the area of 10 football pitches and just under half a million separate metal panels are produced each day. It's absolutely staggering and the tour was the highlight of my week's vacation. VW employ about 62,000 people in Wolfsburg alone, that's about the size of the entire British army.
It’s incredible the machinery humanity has invented just to make other machines
Wow I bought my first new car ever. It was a 2022 MK8 Golf R and I’m super impressed seeing how it was made
And then you woke up and it was all a wet dream!🤥🤥🤥
I just got a allocation for a 2024 r. Somebody built one then backed out and there are only 7 available for this year in my area. I feel pretty lucky
@@adamfehr1994 There you go man. Perfect. I got lucky and got mine February 17th in 2022 for MSRP. Did you get DSG?
my condolences
should have bot a toyoter
This is good, VW cars are the best
Incredible factory work, with amazing robot tools, really extraordinary...
Cool watching this after receiving my 2024 golf R last Saturday.
Только гольф 4 купил! Уже 8 вышел😂
🎉🎉
GTI is probably my favorite car.
So glad I got my GTI mk8 from this factory. The quality really shows.
THIS IS WHERE MY BABY CAME FROM!!!! 2023 GTI!!!! :,D
this is incredible
Incredible German engineering
All car factories are the same.
@@smokerjoe5231not really
@@99Venom Designing car factories is my job. (body in white process, robotic and automation)
So yep, car factories are all the same.
@smokerjoe5231 so you gonna tell me the quality of a chinese car is the same as the quality of a german car?
@@99Venom Don't confuse a product with the machines to produce it.
Every factories are highly automated. Hundreds of robots for handling, welding, gluing and so on.
Processes are the same. Stamping, welding, painting, assembly etc ... (except for Tesla with their underbody in 3 cast aluminum parts).
But even with high end cookware, your dish will not be good with bad ingredients.
So th global quality of the product is mainly due to the car design itself. (quality of materials, clearance (gaps), soundproofing, waterproofing, maintenance, reliability etc ...)
I work in this very Volkswagen plant, in press tool construction. We make the pressing tools that were shown at the beginning, I rarely see the tools in use, but I always find it impressive to feel this enormous power when I stand in front of the press. This noise and this automatism is overwhelming. Down in the cellar there is even more noise and you can hear the rattling of the waste plates.
What a fascinating video. Would love to see more factories!
Incredible
i love volkswagen forever♥
fascinating, I will really love to work here.
This tech is mind blowing, cool to see how my Rline was built.
Impressive.
Im suprised to see how clean it is.
ah, yes, $100million for a robot - suuuuure xD
stepper motors in robot joints... good lord, who came up with this???
Im VW employee, of course 100m is nonsense, in 2015 it was like that, 750k Euros per smallest unit, im talking about KUKA robots here, every robot then has its own function gears which its additional cost, then the average cost is about 1,2M Euros per One robot, Welding House Hall for Alu Audi Q7,Q8, VW TOU had over 1000 robot as i remember, in 2023 Ive no idea :)
@ahmedalnadi4159 nope, a single, large robot (without equipment) has a catalog price of around 25-35k€, depending on manufacturer, model and options. And automotive customers get them waaaay below that.
maybe, i didnt see the price list my self, Programming engineer in Kuka told me that when they were building the New wilding house for the Current generation Audi Q7,8 , honesty 30k is nothing these days , they look much more expensive than that, but again maybe you are right :)@@bidzej86
@@ahmedalnadi4159 You talking nonsens, you maybe are an VW employee but I work in robot industry and a medium robot (~200kg payload capacity) wich are the most used in automotive industry specially for welding process, it's around 20-30k Euro including controller (they buying a lot once getting discounts). Then of course other robots with bigger loading capacity 300-400 kg, are about maybe 50-70k Euro. Kuka, Fanuc, Abb whatever, prices are pretty similar.
Yes if we talk about the final price per unit with everything functional, robot programmer, tool design mounted on robot etc etc, can be just for one robot around 100kEuro. But 1.2M never, I think they mean something else when they say 1.2M euroes per robot.
Maybe it's the Tony Stark's robots 😂
Impressive
I Have a GOLF GTI MK8 and is great 🌞
13:30 this is the first time, I've watched a video where the tires are mounted on the car by drones, super impressive.
Without the human hand in production, cars have no spirit.
Henry Ford would be impressed 😊
Henry ford would be impressed a Germany company is doing way better than Ford? He'd be furious...
Henry Ford was a nazi sympathizer and Volkswagen was founded by NSDAP.
He would be delighted
German engineering at its best top stuff Vw
Meu sonho é trabalhar na Volkswagen
I heard you can buy new old VW's in other countries! I'd love to try the ID4 and new GOLF R
100 Mio. dollar each robot? Where do you get this numbers from?
Thats bullshit it work for VW other Number and facts are also wrong. I dont know but this sounds like chat gpt wrote the script XD
He just made that up.
Probably from futbal field lengh or elephant wheight😂
Cool. 🎉
german precision making=best in the world
so where's my sos module that ive been waiting 6 weeks for 🤣
cool tour, but please don‘t do a commentary with wrong facts
I would love to visit the VW manufacturing facility in Wolfsburg Germany 🇩🇪 🤓
Fantastic, it's a pity that the boot fills with water when it rains!
Hay hay todo con máquinas y la gente sin trabajo
The video is very good. But the bulllcrap you are telling is just to funny.
Imagine putting all these robots and systems together!! that must be humans
Can you fix the infotainment system of your last models pls?
Just seeing how briskly the body panels get produced shows you how fast the Golf can get made. It only compounds the fact that Golf GTI production for North America is artificially being limited to create some sort of rare-model demand that really isn't there because the current generation has many design faults that customers are turned off by. The sheer greediness of the inflated price of what was supposed to be a nameplate that was more affordable, and a "people's car" just isn't anymore and it's mostly due to corporate greed at a manufacturer level and then at the franchise level.
I worked in a press shop doing body sides it was craaazy.
My face got sliced with a fender by a jealous co- worker.
After I've watched the video I ask myself what do you need the 60,000 workers for ? 🤔😀
How long does it take to manufacture a Golf from start to finish?
5 seconds
16m25s
216.25 years
One of these answers must be correct but which one?
Depending on the segment (small or large car), cycle times range from less than a minute to 3 minutes.
A vehicle spends around 16 hours in the factory before being completely finished.
Keep striking and these mf robots are handling business
Good 👍very good quality 👍
Work has started on the 2025 Golf 8.5 Facelift Model 😊
GTI and R Engines made in Hungary 🙄
do the cars come with the EML already on?
4:33 is spot welding not laser welding
Do you know how long to make it ?
12:10 RadioFrequencyIDentification = RFID. Not ARFD. It's the same technology used by many door opening systems in multi-storey buildings for example. Used at much lower cost applications as well, really not that special.
What happens to the robots when vehicle production is stopped?
They relocate to another manufacturer 😅
What about the engine covers are they all in the dustbin,VW recall !
arfd ... not an RFID ? maybe German?
that one robot hand worth 100 million each ?
YOUR BIGGEST KENYAN FAN, SUBSCRIBER, LIKER, COMMENTER RIGHT HERE, AS USUAL, 21/11/2023
you kidding right. 100million dollars for one robot?
An industrial robot like that costs around €40k
seat is pronounced sayat in Spanish part of vwg
i laughed at that too 😂
@@ribbitism more like shi-at.. and that’s about how good they are too
현기차랑은 다른 방식이네.
현기는 위로 차가 지나가면 하나 하나 밑에서 작업하고 있는 방면에 ( 고개와 팔이 위로 )
폭스바겐은 부품대 위에 끼우는 방식이네
방열판이라던가 쇽업쇼버 라던가 ( 팔이 밑으로 )
What about corrosion......only the MK4 was galvanised, right ?
They're aiming for the true style of a golf, always rotting underneath.
@@frederiklarsen1494no need, engine and gearbox will pack in before it can rust
@@ahyaan2552 well… at least you won’t have to worry about rust then? Right?
@@ahyaan2552 Why is everyone hating on vw, are they bad cars or something?
@@Simon11354no they are not .
12:15 Radio Frequency Identification - ARFD? WTF?
100 M$ for each robot !
that is pure bullcrap, as most of the information in this video.
Nope, VW could never afford them if they cost that much. All the robots combined probably cost around half a billion combined.
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I'm sure Henry Ford would look at this assembly line and ask, "where are all the people ?"
The ai text to speech script sounds like gibberish.
consumers do the final test for these scraps
In our Hyundai, workers working while watching TH-cam with earphones on.
The chick putting that emblem on can get the business
Manufacturing Automation Porn....very impressive...
You guys arguing over catalogue prices, while u dont realize that the effector is custom made and custom engineered for that exact process.
You have any idea how much that costs?
Ive seen a kuka R&D plant from the inside, and they are mimickinhg the production lines they are supplying in their halls first and test and optimize absolutely everything, before building it up at the customer plant (eg VW).
Of course the base robot is not much, but that exact robot in that production line for that specific task is way more expensive then that.
You are comparing apples and oranges.
It could also be possible, that the internal engineering and process development is priced into that claim, but Im pretty sure its upwards of 300k per robot on average.
£600 billion worth of robots in one factory 😳mustve been a typo
My golf 8 sensors all gave up in -1 Celcius this morning. It just hates wet or cold weather.... Everything just packs in. Luckily the motor still works..... O.... check engine light.
Worst car vw ever made. I had 2022 and 2023 as company car. Touch screen freezes up all the tıme and all the sensors are got crazy durıng the day and most of the tıme, I have to stop the car and run agaın to clear the errors.
@@tr9036 There is a program update available. And funny my 2022 never had these issues.
@@bradwick212 You are so lucky. Car is just 22.000 and touch screen make me crazy.
My 2024 R already got new injectors and the cruise control keeps failing saying that sensors are obstructed... when they aren't. Miss my 2018.
@@tr9036 Take it back to dealer, they should have update.
Vor dem Lackieren waren es halt auch einfach mal Golf 7
think the translation of wedding and marriage got mixed up
Amazing, but it also explains why most cars look so similar - they come off the same production line!!
Also same platform MQB.
100 Mil each? that's a typo....
Не надо озвучивать, люди не пропаганда для слов.
Factory sound, background music and dialogue, I think you are overdoing it. People with hearing Impairment can not hear your dialogue.
Isn't a Trunk what pirate's use on their ships.
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Naja, ich glaube, dass sich viele Leute nicht vorstellen können, wie groß VW ist. VW will im Jahr 2025 etwa 460 Millionen Euro im Stammwerk in Wolfsburg investieren und trotzdem 26 Milliarden (30 Billion $) bis 2026 einsparen. Sie bereiten sich auf die China Elektroautos vor. Volkswagen hat allein in Deutschland 120.000 Mitarbeiter, Weltweit sind es 200.000.
Другая планета какая то
Amazing. Yet, quality of parts is going down unfortunately. Brand new Golf 8 and in 3 months, replaced lights, air conditioning, interior lights. And approach from dealer very poor. No spare car at least.
Me with a Tiguan made in Mexico🥲
I hope they don’t still using the dq200 Dsg. It’s a shame that the mk7 has that gearbox.
Germans are best at making cars 👏👏👏
If they make a car that fast, then why are those delivery times so long?????
Because thousands of other customers are in front of you !
@@jasoneldridge4738 sure....
are U crazy??? 1 M.dollar for each robot? 6K robots times 1 M. dollar equals THE ENTIRE USA!!!
press shop...
More like a Golfsburg
Nice video with wrong facts.
Comme je dis toujours mieux vaut avoir de bon pneus qu’un bon radio d’auto 😅
More robots = less jobs = more poverty. Wonderful
But more jobs for maintenance technician. Parts and robot manufacturers. So it depends on the angle
Just took delivery of my new mk8 golf R as my first non-toyota car. Has interior rattles on several areas, large dimple on driver seat, and oil leak on rear differential straight out of the factory. Entire diff had to be replaced. Not impressed.
The car infront is a Toyota.
I'm waiting from 1st december 2022 my new golf. Robotics is nothing if the organisation is worst
The Golf/ Rabbit is the best car in the small car class.
6000 drones costing $100 million each is an absurdly incorrect statement. That would equal $600 billion. The VW group factory in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, would have to assemble cars longer than the thousand year reich to monetize that plant. FYI, the city of Wolfsburgh was founded by the government of the 3rd reich.
By the way, the orange drones are manufactured by Kuka one of the most famous and important company's in Deutschland.