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After five coats and 12 hours in paint shop, X4 ready for assembly.
Instrument panel ready for installation at Spartanburg plant, which has capacity to build 450,000 vehicles annually.
Wiring harnesses are warmed to make them more pliable for workers to install.
Spartanburg complex receives 700 trucks per 10-hour shift with parts from suppliers, including 40 Tier 1s located near plant.
Employees work two 10-hour shifts six days a week in both North and South assembly halls.
Every vehicle built in Spartanburg to specification of customers or dealers placing orders.
About 70% of BMWs assembled in Spartanburg are exported, mostly through Port of Charleston.
Spartanburg plant assembled 370,000 BMW vehicles in 2017.
X3 follows X4 into quality assessment department.
Spartanburg complex measures 7 million sq.-ft. (650,300 sq.-m), and 50% of energy needed to run it comes from methane piped from nearby landfill.
Eight random models chosen from each shift for exhaustive 2,000-point quality audit, which takes eight hours.
Mallet used to ensure windows fitting and functioning properly.
Some 32,000 jobs in South Carolina related directly to BMW Spartanburg plant.
Hood closed one last time before X3 leaves assembly line. BMW plants in Dadong, China, and Rosslyn, South Africa, starting to assemble X3 this year.
In May, BMW produced 13,874 X3 models in Spartanburg, outpacing 1,898 X4s.
Later this year, fifth banner will hang over plant entrance when X7 production begins.
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