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Project Yellowstone Plants

• Eisenach Plant

• Rosario Plant in Argentina

• Gliwice Plant

• Shanghai Plant

Other Opel Plants

• Bochum

• Ruesselsheim

New Ruesselsheim

The new Rüsselsheim plant has a planned annual capacity of around 270,000 cars, manufactured on a joint production line in three shifts. The facility, which is being built along the lines of the Opel production plant in Eisenach, is one of the biggest projects in the company's DM 9 billion investment program in Germany.

  
Old Ruesselsheim

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Opel : Bochum Plant

The Bochum plant was launched in 1962. Today about 11,000 people are working in the Bochum plants, which is Bochum I - the Astra & Zafira plant - and Bochum II - the chassis, resp. powertrain plant.

The Bochum plant  source : Adam Opel AG

The product :  Astra  and Zafira,

See as well  In the beginning the succesfull Kadet was build

Production characteristics Bochum I : Astra & Zafira plant

• 45 jobs p. hour, 1.315 min Takttime

• Invest for the Astra : $ 489 Mill.

• Investment for capacity increase : $ 68 Mill.

• Body shop

  • 4,100 welding spots

  • 950 robots

  • 50 cells in body shop

  • fish-bone principle

  • One integrated Spot- and Framing station of ABB-Preciflex

• Assembly

  • Invest into assembly : $ 112 Mill.

  • Newly introduced 2 line system

  • Each line divided into 4 section, decoupled by small buffers and checked at a quality gate

  • Andon

  • Kanban