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A 4 page paper that provides a short background on this plant and discusses the production of a car. The writer suggests the construction of a car is comprised of projects, subprojects, batches and jobs. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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1 million square feet of working space and employs more than 2,000 people (BMW Manufacturing, 2007). The plant generally offers plant tours but these were suspended in June 2007 while
the company retools for producing different models (BMW, Tours, 2007). The company says they "were looking for speed, flexibility, and transparency" (GEAC, 2007) in production operations reporting systems. It
chose Extensity Decision as its Business Intelligence solution (GEAC, 2007). Having the type of information this system provides allows the company to establish aggressive yearly productivity targets (GEAC, 2007) and
provides them data on a monthly basis to be sure they are on target (GEAC, 2007). This is just one of the systems the company uses to increase production and
reduce any errors (GEAC, 2007). It also provides the same information to the heads of the many departments involved in building the product (GEAC, 2007). Adopting this information system saves
time, making the company more efficient. Another innovation the company adopted was to use methane gas to reduce its own energy costs (Noria Corporation, 2007). In fact, they generate
more than 60 percent of their energy needs by piping in methane gas from nearby landfills (Noria Corporation, 2007). They can use the methane to fuel things like turbines that,
in turn, produce electricity for the company (Noria Corporation, 2007). While there was an initial cost to adopt this innovation, it now saves the company about a million dollars a
year in energy costs (Noria Corporation, 2007). This plant is currently producing the Z4 Roadster, Z4M Roadster, Z4 Coupe, Z4M Coupe and the X5 SAV. The virtual tour shows the
viewer how different parts of the car are built and put together. There is a significant part of the production that is performed by robots. In other cases, there are
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