Analysis of the design and production processes of Volkswagen car doors

Nowadays, the automotive sector is evolving at an exponential rate since the car is our daily companion. It is shown that more vehicles have been produced since the economic recession of 2008–2009, which approached 97 million vehicles in 2017, but it has diminished a little to 85 million in 2022 (Placek, 2023), here I am only talking about motor vehicles. Therefore, the most interesting part is to look how the tendence of the electric vehicles tries to growth beyond what we could expect. The giant Volkswagen, one of the leading companies in this sector has expanded its production plant to US Chattanooga to produce electric vehicles and, the project is in place since 2019. Under a new production series which is planned for 2024, my work here in this thesis is to analyse the production of car doors, the necessary fixtures, explain in detail the issues that can be encountered and then propose a plan of solution. In fact, I did an internship in the company Autorobot Strefa located in Gliwice (Poland) the supplier of those fixtures for this project, where I have conducted my research to write this work. Lastly, I will also present a set of unforeseen events that are not directly correlated to the production but can also affect the project with small, medium, or huge impact.