Company visits

Our first company visit was to BMW. It was like having VIP passes behind the scenes.  The factory was clean, but loud.  We walked through with one of our professors who organized the trip.  We gained access to places in the factory where only the lead engineers were permitted because of this professor.  He explained all the jobs that the robots and employees were assigned. The ways engineering was incorporated into a factory was amazing.  All the employees were surprised to see a tour group walking through.  We also went to visit Hirschvogel, Siemens, and Stadtwerke Munchen.  Hirschvogel provides steel and aluminum forging and machining to automotive companies.  The parts produced were heated and went through huge machines to form them into different shapes.  On the Siemen's tour we saw how trains were manufactured.  It takes a tremendous amount of effort to produce these enormous constructions.  We were not allowed to take pictures in any of the factories due to confidentiality of the production and processes.  This picture is my favorite car from the BMW museum.  It is prototype made of a special fabric.