Volkswagen: Modular body production lines Pioneering work is important to an automobile manufacturer that claims to build “the car”. And to build precisely these successful cars, each year the Volkswagen marque plans and constructs on average 3 new production plants in various countries, each with hundreds of robots. A growing number of vehicle derivatives and simultaneous reduction in production for each vehicle derivative presents new challenges in the planning of production volumes. It pushes the definition of standards into the foreground, together with the question of how to model these. For this reason, since 2009 the Volkswagen marque has been successfully using modular construction in its planning of plant electrics together with the EPLAN Engineering Center (EEC). The centrepiece

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