Volkswagen plans to offer 70 percent of all cars produced as fully electric vehicles by 2030. Despite this enormous change to its product portfolio, Volkswagen's commitment to quality remains unchanged.

“Our components must meet high quality standards, whether they are combustion engines or electric motors”, says Holger Giersberg, sub-department head for quality assurance in the foundry and machining division at the Volkswagen plant in Kassel.

The Kassel plant's foundry produces cylinder crankcases, gearbox housings, and housings for electric motors, among other parts. In three-shift operation, the quality assurance department inspects almost 200 delivered components every day. Special measurements are also carried out on an ad hoc basis, for example at the start of the production of new products. Volkswagen in Kassel has relied on ZEISS PRISMO coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) for many years. To shorten throughput times while obtaining more information during the production process, Volkswagen has also installed a ZEISS ScanBox — an automated optical 3D measuring machine that interacts with an automatic loading system from the ZEISS Integration Series comprising 14 set-up stations. The results speak for themselves: “The flexible networking of optical and tactile measurement technology has increased capacity by 30 percent”, reports Holger Giersberg.

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