Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal From blank to party

Is it possible to describe an industrial process in an abstract way? Does production necessarily need to be described in the usual measures or is there more behind than only a digital process? Heavy Metal is a compact and abstract picture series which documents the making of a car from the beginning in the factory to its presentation at an auto show. Locations: Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg/Germany and IAA Cars in Frankfurt/German.

Body construction

The steel leaves the press plant bent and pressed. In the following body shop shop it becomes hot immediately: Mostly robots are welding the parts. About 1,800 of them are used in the body shop of the plant in Wolfsburg. They hand over the parts one by one and pinch the blanks with their brazing tongs. With each single step the design of the body becomes more and more visible.

assembly

Once the body is painted and the chassis combined with the body, life will come to the interior. The car hovers next to the workers and turnes autmatically, depending on the specific working step. Amongst others, seats, interior trim and instruments are mounted here.

Once the seats and other interior parts are fixed, the doors will be mounted from the outside. Here at a Golf GTI.

Light tunnel

Once everything is fixed at its right place, quality assurance checks everything in detail again. The car shall not only run perfectly but also show its brilliant surface. The car is moved through a light tunnel for the paint audit.

Presentation at an auto show

A new model is presented at an auto show first before it's released to hit the road.

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Created By

Kai Grüber

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Credits:

Kai Grüber, seilenz.de

Heavy Metal From blank to party

Body construction

assembly

Light tunnel

Presentation at an auto show

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