Volkswagen Golf 8 production: Factory tour in Wolfsburg

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5 ай бұрын

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

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@TTGamingTrinh 4 ай бұрын

I am a manufacturing engineer and seeing how the cars are made from the VW factory, I am thoroughly impressed. The robotics are amazing

@kimboofdzners9574 4 ай бұрын

I am a certified custodian, I am impressed as well

@jhowdoskate 4 ай бұрын

No one gives a fuck

@r3games1985 4 ай бұрын

I think a manufacturing engineer is pretty amazing.

@gerardfreek2044 2 ай бұрын

Since there are almost nu humans involved these cars should be so much cheaper

@kimboofdzners9574 2 ай бұрын

@@gerardfreek2044 how much do you think one robot costs vs a human paycheck?

@manicstmn 5 ай бұрын

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.

@MrLeovdmeer 5 ай бұрын

It is an American telling the BS.

@krisg822 5 ай бұрын

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.

@krisg822 5 ай бұрын

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

@adhizzle9985 5 ай бұрын

it's english ai voiceover with video taken from elsewhere. you need to understand this new future @@MrLeovdmeer

@namajkatiufputkata 5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@cmartin_ok 4 ай бұрын

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.

@Digitalsurfer265 5 ай бұрын

It’s incredible the machinery humanity has invented just to make other machines

@mqbr22 5 ай бұрын

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

@goldieandblackie 5 ай бұрын

And then you woke up and it was all a wet dream!🤥🤥🤥

@adamfehr1994 5 ай бұрын

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

@mqbr22 5 ай бұрын

@@adamfehr1994 There you go man. Perfect. I got lucky and got mine February 17th in 2022 for MSRP. Did you get DSG?

@Hinterhof-qx5ql 5 ай бұрын

my condolences

@BMW_Z4idiot 5 ай бұрын

should have bot a toyoter

@Lishen-rh8mp 3 ай бұрын

This is good, VW cars are the best

@blacklabel810 5 ай бұрын

Incredible factory work, with amazing robot tools, really extraordinary...

@DynamicAttraction 4 ай бұрын

Cool watching this after receiving my 2024 golf R last Saturday.

@ronniefront511 4 ай бұрын

What a fascinating video. Would love to see more factories!

@bidzej86 5 ай бұрын

ah, yes, $100million for a robot - suuuuure xD stepper motors in robot joints... good lord, who came up with this???

@ahmedalnadi4159 5 ай бұрын

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 :)

@bidzej86 5 ай бұрын

@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.

@ahmedalnadi4159 5 ай бұрын

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

@25-NNN 5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@herculesilva 5 ай бұрын

Maybe it's the Tony Stark's robots 😂

@bryanramey2438 2 ай бұрын

GTI is probably my favorite car.

@bertram1st 4 ай бұрын

this is incredible

@uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh8833 4 ай бұрын

THIS IS WHERE MY BABY CAME FROM!!!! 2023 GTI!!!! :,D

@wnturck 4 күн бұрын

Same!

@theworldisnotenough5185 5 ай бұрын

Incredible

@r3games1985 4 ай бұрын

So glad I got my GTI mk8 from this factory. The quality really shows.

@user-pk6wz7um7i 5 ай бұрын

Только гольф 4 купил! Уже 8 вышел😂

@zarakdurrani7584 5 ай бұрын

🎉🎉

@ForexFelix 2 ай бұрын

i love volkswagen forever♥

@user-zi3cv2hx2z 3 ай бұрын

fascinating, I will really love to work here.

@butchmeister80 2 ай бұрын

This tech is mind blowing, cool to see how my Rline was built.

@holgerdinhoify 27 күн бұрын

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.

@thealmightyz73 5 ай бұрын

Incredible German engineering

@smokerjoe5231 4 ай бұрын

All car factories are the same.

@99Venom Ай бұрын

@@smokerjoe5231not really

@smokerjoe5231 Ай бұрын

@@99Venom Designing car factories is my job. (body in white process, robotic and automation) So yep, car factories are all the same.

@99Venom Ай бұрын

@smokerjoe5231 so you gonna tell me the quality of a chinese car is the same as the quality of a german car?

@smokerjoe5231 Ай бұрын

@@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 ...)

@MadAdventure919 5 ай бұрын

Impressive.

@pandorawolf8239 3 ай бұрын

Im suprised to see how clean it is.

@lenouvelordre667 4 ай бұрын

Impressive

@EltonShahini 4 ай бұрын

Without the human hand in production, cars have no spirit.

@user-gw9sk1zy4s Ай бұрын

13:30 this is the first time, I've watched a video where the tires are mounted on the car by drones, super impressive.

@richardglover1200 4 ай бұрын

Cool. 🎉

@Wolf1898 5 ай бұрын

cool tour, but please don‘t do a commentary with wrong facts

@Mr7Niice 3 ай бұрын

I heard you can buy new old VW's in other countries! I'd love to try the ID4 and new GOLF R

@fp5495 3 ай бұрын

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.

@kevindreyer6710 Ай бұрын

German engineering at its best top stuff Vw

@BREAKDANCE-mi7ik 4 ай бұрын

I Have a GOLF GTI MK8 and is great 🌞

@americafirst2159 5 ай бұрын

Henry Ford would be impressed 😊

@fredrikcarlen3212 4 ай бұрын

Henry ford would be impressed a Germany company is doing way better than Ford? He'd be furious...

@patrykK1028 3 ай бұрын

Henry Ford was a nazi sympathizer and Volkswagen was founded by NSDAP. He would be delighted

@beatrizfernandez3821 5 ай бұрын

Hay hay todo con máquinas y la gente sin trabajo

@MrDelgrigorov 4 ай бұрын

Can you fix the infotainment system of your last models pls?

@col8981 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic, it's a pity that the boot fills with water when it rains!

@milanstokrp9387 5 ай бұрын

GTI and R Engines made in Hungary 🙄

@tomdowning9358 5 ай бұрын

100 Mio. dollar each robot? Where do you get this numbers from?

@EmptyShadoow 5 ай бұрын

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

@MrLeovdmeer 5 ай бұрын

He just made that up.

@Lordosvk 5 ай бұрын

Probably from futbal field lengh or elephant wheight😂

@myronspokedex 2 ай бұрын

I would love to visit the VW manufacturing facility in Wolfsburg Germany 🇩🇪 🤓

@MrLeovdmeer 5 ай бұрын

The video is very good. But the bulllcrap you are telling is just to funny.

@stevieh59 3 ай бұрын

Imagine putting all these robots and systems together!! that must be humans

@bobthiele8563 Ай бұрын

After I've watched the video I ask myself what do you need the 60,000 workers for ? 🤔😀

@khevincordeiro9230 5 ай бұрын

Meu sonho é trabalhar na Volkswagen

@W4lter.65 Ай бұрын

What happens to the robots when vehicle production is stopped?

@danievanderwesthuizen9636 15 күн бұрын

They relocate to another manufacturer 😅

@vlogurawa5968 2 ай бұрын

Do you know how long to make it ?

@bergkampdennis5673 2 ай бұрын

german precision making=best in the world

@waqar280592 5 ай бұрын

Keep striking and these mf robots are handling business

@toronte 4 ай бұрын

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.

@Mr7Niice 3 ай бұрын

I worked in a press shop doing body sides it was craaazy. My face got sliced with a fender by a jealous co- worker.

@tariqnadeem1662 5 ай бұрын

Good 👍very good quality 👍

@jamiep61 3 ай бұрын

Work has started on the 2025 Golf 8.5 Facelift Model 😊

@T2daniel 4 ай бұрын

so where's my sos module that ive been waiting 6 weeks for 🤣

@richardfife8192 5 ай бұрын

4:33 is spot welding not laser welding

@anthonyway 5 ай бұрын

How long does it take to manufacture a Golf from start to finish?

@marmite2956 5 ай бұрын

5 seconds

@Vintaginside 5 ай бұрын

16m25s

@fredrikcarlen3212 4 ай бұрын

216.25 years

@thegametesterman 4 ай бұрын

One of these answers must be correct but which one?

@smokerjoe5231 4 ай бұрын

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.

@manxman8008 5 ай бұрын

arfd ... not an RFID ? maybe German?

@propanbutan4634 5 ай бұрын

do the cars come with the EML already on?

@js312 4 ай бұрын

that one robot hand worth 100 million each ?

@pommejohn 3 ай бұрын

What about the engine covers are they all in the dustbin,VW recall !

@michals547 5 ай бұрын

The Golf/ Rabbit is the best car in the small car class.

@mochno1 4 ай бұрын

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.

@antisocialvr6 5 ай бұрын

👍

@Blueberrybanana 4 ай бұрын

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 )

@slipperyhand Ай бұрын

consumers do the final test for these scraps

@patricknyingi 5 ай бұрын

you kidding right. 100million dollars for one robot?

@DanielVdH 5 ай бұрын

An industrial robot like that costs around €40k

@manxman8008 5 ай бұрын

seat is pronounced sayat in Spanish part of vwg

@ribbitism 5 ай бұрын

i laughed at that too 😂

@nothingtosee7718 5 ай бұрын

@@ribbitism more like shi-at.. and that’s about how good they are too

@leonel9097 5 ай бұрын

100 M$ for each robot !

@bidzej86 5 ай бұрын

that is pure bullcrap, as most of the information in this video.

@fredrikcarlen3212 4 ай бұрын

Nope, VW could never afford them if they cost that much. All the robots combined probably cost around half a billion combined.

@Bernd_Brot_1978 4 ай бұрын

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.

@DamirAsanov 3 ай бұрын

12:15 Radio Frequency Identification - ARFD? WTF?

@janeymers7154 3 ай бұрын

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.

@jpgpearson 5 ай бұрын

think the translation of wedding and marriage got mixed up

@bigjd2k 5 ай бұрын

Amazing, but it also explains why most cars look so similar - they come off the same production line!!

@r3games1985 4 ай бұрын

Also same platform MQB.

@eDENTECHNOCYBERHUB 5 ай бұрын

YOUR BIGGEST KENYAN FAN, SUBSCRIBER, LIKER, COMMENTER RIGHT HERE, AS USUAL, 21/11/2023

@tt-rs1457 5 ай бұрын

What about corrosion......only the MK4 was galvanised, right ?

@frederiklarsen1494 5 ай бұрын

They're aiming for the true style of a golf, always rotting underneath.

@ahyaan2552 5 ай бұрын

@@frederiklarsen1494no need, engine and gearbox will pack in before it can rust

@frederiklarsen1494 5 ай бұрын

@@ahyaan2552 well… at least you won’t have to worry about rust then? Right?

@Simon11354 5 ай бұрын

@@ahyaan2552 Why is everyone hating on vw, are they bad cars or something?

@jasoneldridge4738 2 ай бұрын

@@Simon11354no they are not .

@Wtrxprs007able 5 ай бұрын

The ai text to speech script sounds like gibberish.

@jellyd4889 5 ай бұрын

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.

@tr9036 5 ай бұрын

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.

@bradwick212 5 ай бұрын

@@tr9036 There is a program update available. And funny my 2022 never had these issues.

@tr9036 5 ай бұрын

@@bradwick212 You are so lucky. Car is just 22.000 and touch screen make me crazy.

@VWTalk 5 ай бұрын

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.

@bradwick212 5 ай бұрын

@@tr9036 Take it back to dealer, they should have update.

@ethanwhite6975 4 ай бұрын

£600 billion worth of robots in one factory 😳mustve been a typo

@GSSurry 3 ай бұрын

Factory sound, background music and dialogue, I think you are overdoing it. People with hearing Impairment can not hear your dialogue.

@Tmags777 4 ай бұрын

100 Mil each? that's a typo....

@kleintoni 5 ай бұрын

Vor dem Lackieren waren es halt auch einfach mal Golf 7

@InCountry6970 3 ай бұрын

I'm sure Henry Ford would look at this assembly line and ask, "where are all the people ?"

@i_love_oldschool 5 ай бұрын

In our Hyundai, workers working while watching KZfaq with earphones on.

@wedrivebynight 3 ай бұрын

The chick putting that emblem on can get the business

@hi22323 Ай бұрын

Не надо озвучивать, люди не пропаганда для слов.

@DDuck777 4 ай бұрын

Isn't a Trunk what pirate's use on their ships.

@user-gw9sk1zy4s Ай бұрын

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.

@YesterdayTodayandForever Ай бұрын

👌❣❣❣👌

@alexflc6063 3 ай бұрын

Manufacturing Automation Porn....very impressive...

@jeffgroves4533 5 ай бұрын

Me with a Tiguan made in Mexico🥲

@jeantrudeau6668 4 ай бұрын

Comme je dis toujours mieux vaut avoir de bon pneus qu’un bon radio d’auto 😅

@davidputt4638 4 ай бұрын

"These are super smart robots worth at least $100 million each"?! Either there was a problem when translating or this script was generated by bard or some other AI that doesn't know how to fact check. Kuka (higher end manufacturing robots) robots cost between 50k and 1 million each. Were you trying to say that the 6000 robots cost $100 million through each production line? That's a little more believable. Otherwise 6000 X 100 million = $600 billion only for the robots, lol.

@smokerjoe5231 4 ай бұрын

Further more, not all robots are new brands. Carry over consist to upgrade a line to produce other models and next ones with the same robots and eventually replace the oldest ones by new ones. So telling the real cost is not that easy.

@truthbetold1958 3 ай бұрын

Reading this comment was really refreshing :)@@smokerjoe5231

@billx4266 3 ай бұрын

If they make a car that fast, then why are those delivery times so long?????

@jasoneldridge4738 2 ай бұрын

Because thousands of other customers are in front of you !

@billx4266 26 күн бұрын

@@jasoneldridge4738 sure....

@levertmalatji-oj9ok 4 ай бұрын

Nice video with wrong facts.

@Rufuslacrew 5 ай бұрын

Другая планета какая то

@oxygen026 5 ай бұрын

More like a Golfsburg

@manxman8008 5 ай бұрын

press shop...

@oargaoarga6018 3 ай бұрын

are U crazy??? 1 M.dollar for each robot? 6K robots times 1 M. dollar equals THE ENTIRE USA!!!

@mateomarinfoto6432 2 ай бұрын

I hope they don’t still using the dq200 Dsg. It’s a shame that the mk7 has that gearbox.

@brahimaoudia4621 5 ай бұрын

Germans are best at making cars 👏👏👏

@lronSausage 4 ай бұрын

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.

@iain8837 4 ай бұрын

The car infront is a Toyota.