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BMW i3 Factory Tour: Carbon Fiber and Automated Production

europeanautosource · Documentary · 41 min · 2014 · YouTube title: BMW i3 Factory Production Tour
Why it's here

Cited as a vivid example of modern, highly automated manufacturing with few workers, and of carmakers as robotics companies.

What it covers

A 41-minute factory tour showing how the BMW i3 electric car is built from start to finish, in the style of a Megafactories documentary. It shows a highly automated production line with carbon-fiber body construction and robots doing most of the work.