New car manufacturing facilities will need to be highly flexible as the trends of vehicle electrification and autonomous driving continue to evolve. Mercedes-Benz futuristic ‘Factory 56’ paves a new path.
Mercedes-Benz has long been a champion of flexible and efficient manufacturing techniques, carrying out numerous projects to test innovative new processes and implementing many of them in production lines across the world. In November 2017, for example, the company announced that it would build the GLA SUV using Industry 4.0 solutions and manufacturing technologies that require a low degree of automation as part of a two-year pilot project called ‘Innovation Factory’.
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