Y12 Bus - A Look into the VW Factory

This 6 minute video gives you a guided tour of VW’s “transparent factory”.  The factory, located in Dresden, is designed not only to make high quality luxury cars. It aims to build the brand values inherent in the product.

Fantastic examples of robotic technology in action; it’s amazing how the robots are guided by tens of thousands of magnets built into the factory floor. The use of “intelligent tools” is quite mind-blowing; a great example how flow production can be used in the production of high specification and complex products .

Customers are paying premium price for their car, so it’s a neat twist allowing them to both view and (in some cases) build their own cars.  Good examples of the use of quality control too before finished cars are transported to the storage silo.

Why is it called a transparent factory? Every part of the production process is visible from all parts of the factory. Where traditional factories have walls, this factor has glass - everywhere.

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Unit 4: Business Ethics

This is a superb video ideal for introducing ethics in BUS4.


It's a very rare 10 minute only fools and horses christmas special where Del is trying to ‘shift’ 150 christmas trees. It all ends with what Rodney sees to be unethical behaviour, and when he says to Del, ’ you dont even know what ‘effics’ are do ya? Del replies, ‘effics, course I do, they make model airplanes’!



It even touches on the recession and promotion.

Superb, and after showing the video, the class can discuss what they think ethics mean and then discuss whether or not Del Boys antics were ethical or not.

Priceless.

Enjoy…...............