How is car in production during plant shutdown?

[Tonymiabmw]

My production started this last weekend the 9th I saw on the BMW site. I called the hotline and it says car is suppose to be complete by 25th. How does it take two weeks? I know there is a plant shut down from the 11th to 18th. Do they start on the car and then leave it sit for a week during the shut down?

[SakhirM4]

Originally Posted by Tonymiabmw

My production started this last weekend the 9th I saw on the BMW site. I called the hotline and it says car is suppose to be complete by 25th. How does it take two weeks? I know there is a plant shut down from the 11th to 18th. Do they start on the car and then leave it sit for a week during the shut down?

They let the robots finish it while they are on vacation

[Tonymiabmw]

Originally Posted by gmcconn535

They let the robots finish it while they are on vacation

Feel like Im gonna get a buggy car. No bueno

[Bruce///M]

My F80 is in production. The current status (hot line) states it's in body shop with production completion on Aug-14.

[Tonymiabmw]

Originally Posted by Bruce///M

My F80 is in production. The current status (hot line) states it's in body shop with production completion on Aug-14.

Hmm when did it start

[SakhirM4]

Originally Posted by Tonymiabmw

My production started this last weekend the 9th I saw on the BMW site. I called the hotline and it says car is suppose to be complete by 25th. How does it take two weeks? I know there is a plant shut down from the 11th to 18th. Do they start on the car and then leave it sit for a week during the shut down?

BMW's website shows that the plant is shut down from 11 - 22 August.

[Tonymiabmw]

Originally Posted by gmcconn535

BMW's website shows that the plant is shut down from 11 - 22 August.

Weird so how is the car in production? 2 days before the plant closing and 3 days after? Sounds like the car will be cursed.

[Bruce///M]

The build was originally scheduled for wk35 then move to wk32. My CA also contacted me with this update. Initial hotline status was completion on Aug-13. Today it states Aug-14 completion. I'll see what happens tomorrow and post an update.

[M3ryder55]

It takes 10 days to build a car. I'm sure they have figured out a way to keep the factory running or know cut off points that are good during production.

[karussell]

plant shut down means plant shut down. cars stop on the line and resume right where they left off. I think july build cars have the most errors. summer. day dreaming about 5 weeks off following month. biergarten every evening. lol

after the break everyone is reset and ready to work.

[SOM3]

Originally Posted by M3ryder55

It takes 10 days to build a car. I'm sure they have figured out a way to keep the factory running or know cut off points that are good during production.

Actually it takes about five days to finish a standard (not individual) M3/4.

[E90Fleet]

Originally Posted by M3ryder55

It takes 10 days to build a car. I'm sure they have figured out a way to keep the factory running or know cut off points that are good during production.

Actually it takes 48 hours to build a F30/F80 sized BMW.
But what happens is there are buffers in the production line between steps to ensure a problem in one area does not affect another area.

So the car will be welded up in the body shop within a few hours, then go into the buffer storage are. After a specific time the car will leave the buffer area for the paint shop. After painting it will again go into a buffer storage area before going into final assembly. The paint to assembly buffer at the Rosslyn BMW plant is said to usually be just over 48hours production.

After final assembly certain cars also go into Audit bays that delay their "complete" status.

[E90Fleet]

Originally Posted by SOM3

Actually it takes about five days to finish a standard (not individual) M3/4.

Individual 3 Series take the same time to build.
But they batch them toget by paint color so they dont waste paint and cleaning solution by only painting 1 or 2 individual colors every week.

At the Rosslyn plant they usually to do Individual 3 Series once a month when Individual is available.


The interior bits are fitted on the normal production line by the normal employees.
Only special once off 7 Series ect with hand made parts get their interiors fitted separately from the normal production line. But these cars are very scarece and hugely expensive.

[secretariat]

Karussel, how is that possible. Are you suggesting that everyone who has been promised a week 35 and 36 production week will be moved back to week 37 and 38 and so on and so on.............

[karussell]

Originally Posted by secretariat

Karussel, how is that possible. Are you suggesting that everyone who has been promised a week 35 and 36 production week will be moved back to week 37 and 38 and so on and so on.............

I think they can figure out around the holiday break. been doing it for a few years now. Every german manufacturer deals with this.

[Walt Dockery]

Mine is the same, 800# told me it started production Aug 8 and expected to finish Aug 25. I'm not worried about it.

[Tonymiabmw]

Originally Posted by Walt Dockery

Mine is the same, 800# told me it started production Aug 8 and expected to finish Aug 25. I'm not worried about it.

Our cars can hang out in the empty factory

[purdyawesome]

My car has been finished since Monday. Hotline keeps saying, "waiting to be released to the carrier". Gonna be annoyed if they finished before closing the plant but wait 2 weeks to get it on it's way to the port.

[modkrazy]

Oh yeah, a bunch of spiders and bees and shit will settle in the incomplete car while it sits on the assembly line. I bet a bunch of birds will dump all over the interior, too. You're going to get the first F80 with the spidersbeesfeathersandbirdshit package.

[F80JMcD]

BMW did not pause production in 2013. They just released their Q2 numbers and YoY sales continue to be strong. I was told they weren't pausing production in 2014 either.

[Bruce///M]

My build changed status overnight. It went from the body shop to paint shop with estimated completion Aug-14. That suggests production is not shutdown or the gremlins are operating the robots...

[E90Fleet]

BMW often keep a new model line open during "shutdown" time if that model was released close to the time or demand is very high.

Here is a article when they and Mercedes did it last year

2013
Daimler AG (DAI) will skip traditional summer breaks at most of its car factories with models like the revamped Mercedes-Benz E-Class keeping assembly lines busy even as European auto demand slides to a 20-year low.

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is also either preparing for new models or keeping plants churning out cars to meet demand. The full order books of the German luxury-car makers contrast with factory shutdowns and job cuts at mass-market rivals such PSA Peugeot Citroen (UG) and Ford Motor Co. (F)