Press release
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april 03, 2018 - Seat
How has car manufacturing changed in the last 25 years?
- Two employees recount the most significant changes that have taken place in the #Seat #Martorell factory on the occasion of its 25th anniversary
- Ergonomics and the presence of robots to handle the most cumbersome jobs are just some of the advances towards Industry 4.0
- The production time of a new car has gone down from 60 hours to the present 16
- The #Martorell factory has grown in size, equivalent now to 400 football fields, and has produced close to 10 million cars in the last quarter century
“I was only 18 years old when I first stepped into the #Martorell factory and I remember the Barcelona Olympic Games had recently been held. I was an apprentice and my colleagues and I had high hopes for the future – everything was new and we were told that it was the most modern factory in Europe”. This is how Juan Pérez, who currently heads the Press Processes, recalls those early days 25 years ago at the #Seat #Martorell factory. Both Juan and his colleague Victor Manuel Díaz, who is responsible for Teamwork, Standardisation and Shopfloor Management, have experienced historic changes in the plant over the last quarter century
-A giant factory that looked like a laboratory: “They gave me a pair of brick coloured overalls that nobody wears anymore and I walked into the Body Shop with deep respect. Everything was so clean that I thought I was in laboratory”, remembers Juan Pérez. Victor Manuel, who was 20 when he began working in Assembly Shop 8, will never forget his first look at the factory: “I thought it was enormous and it was filled with light. Cars were going up and down elevators. I’d never seen anything like it”, he recalls. Even though the #Martorell factory started out with 404,000 m², over the years it has expanded to a total of 2,800,000 m², equivalent to 400 football fields.
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