Lecture "Assembly and commissioning of motor vehicles"

In the summer semester 2019, the event ‘Assembly and commissioning of motor vehicles’ was once again offered. This lecture takes place annually as a block event at the ZeMA and enjoyed great popularity again. The event is a joint lecture with 20 Saarland students from the University of Saarland and the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft. In addition, 20 RWTH Aachen students are represented.

The content of the event is the assembly and commissioning of motor vehicles, divided into eleven lecture units, accompanied by supplementary exercises. In the course of the lecture and the corresponding exercise, the steps of a vehicle production with a focus on final assembly are discussed. In order to underline the practical presentation of the contents, individual lectures are given by guest speakers from our industry partners. The event concludes each year with excursions to car manufacturers and their suppliers in order to clearly deepen the content. For this purpose, the students and the trainers visited the production of Ford in Saarlouis and the plant of the transmission supplier ZF in Saarbrücken at the end of the lecture week. The tour began in Saarlouis after a short presentation about the structure, processes and history of the plant. Starting from the raw steel coil, all the essential stations in the vehicle assembly process were visited and explained via the finished painted body, right up to the end-of-line area. A special point this year was a stop in the House of Quality. Measures for continuous quality assurance were presented here. The contents of the lectures could thus be understood and deepened.

Subsequently, the ZF plant in Saarbrücken was the second destination of the excursion. At a joint lunch, the first contents have already been exchanged.
The guided tour through the plant of the transmission supplier went through the entire production process, starting with the production up to the final assembly and the subsequent quality control of the product. Individual production steps were comprehensively explained and a detailed insight into the various steps on the way to a finished automatic transmission was given.

Subsequently, data and facts about the location were presented to the students. ZeMA would also like to thank the ME-Saar Foundation, which generously supported the lecture and thus enabled a practice-oriented program for students from various universities.