Delivery bottlenecks for semiconductors are becoming an ever greater problem for VW.
The main plant in Wolfsburg will have to cut production on Thursday.
The plant in Emden must also shut down.
Volkswagen is
apparently
sending
thousands of employees on
short-time
work at the
Emden
plant
The
group also has to take it off the gas
at the main plant in
Wolfsburg
A quick improvement is hardly in sight.
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Update from January 13th, 4:47 p.m.
- The shortage in semiconductors is hitting the
VW
group harder and harder.
Because of the limited availability of chips, production will be cut back in January at the main plant in Wolfsburg, the company announced on Wednesday.
As of Thursday (January 14), work on two of four production lines at the corporate headquarters will be suspended, it said.
The two models Tiguan and Touran are affected by the restrictions.
According to reports,
the VW plant in
Emden
is also apparently facing a reduction in production.
VW had already warned of bottlenecks and possible production cuts at individual locations in North America, Europe and China in the first quarter in mid-December.
The cause of the delivery problems is apparently the
corona
crisis.
Because car sales slumped drastically in spring 2020, many chip manufacturers are switching their production to consumer electronics.
Now car manufacturers are facing bottlenecks.
It was only on Tuesday that
Daimler
had
announced short-time work for its compact car plant in Rastatt from Friday due to a lack of chips.
There is hardly any short-term remedy in sight.
“There are no short-term delivery alternatives,” VW works council chief
Bernd Osterloh
warned shortly before the turn of the year.
Problems at VW again: delivery bottleneck for semiconductors
First report from January 13, 12:03 p.m.
- The
VW Emden location
plays an important role in the import and export of the largest car company in Europe.
The belts of the local production facility in the Lower Saxony plant will apparently come to a standstill soon.
Volkswagen
is forced to
suspend production for two weeks
due to missing
computer components
, as the
SZ
describes.
Accordingly, suppliers cannot provide the agreed quantities of semiconductor materials, which means that
VW
will register short-time work for this period.
The measure affects around
9,000 employees
who are under contract at the northern German location.
VW plant in Emden has to interrupt production - delivery problems with semiconductors
According to the report, due to the
gap in the manufacturing process
, the belts will be idle from next week.
Semiconductor technology
is found in almost all modern
high-tech products
, in modern vehicle construction it is used in microchips in control electronics.
The technology is considered to be the heart of modern cars and is an essential factor for components such as the drive train, infotainment or driver assistance systems.
The
VW plant in Emden is
playing a key role in the Group's new electric offensive, while a popular model steeped in tradition is about to end.
The production failure is apparently not made up for later: around 1,000 vehicles are manufactured in Emden every day, the company apparently expects that the planned annual volume of
190,000 units will
not be achieved, but there is no confirmation of this.
VW: Suppliers cannot deliver semiconductor components - Emden plant stops production
Volkswagen
already had
problems with the
availability of semiconductor components
last year
.
Companies from the electrical engineering sector had switched production in the wake of the slump in sales in the
Corona crisis
, which
resulted in bottlenecks
in the
automotive industry
.
In December,
VW
spoke
of a severely restricted delivery situation that would result in "significant disruptions in global vehicle production".
The agreements with regard to short-time work for employees have been adapted accordingly.
Other car companies such as
Daimler
, which is currently struggling with another problem, are also affected.
Due to the lack of
electronic components
,
Volkswagen
had already
reduced capacities
at its headquarters in
Wolfsburg
and
Braunschweig
in December
.
Emden was also affected by the development; according to the
dpa
, there were
initially problems due to the lack of deliveries of seat parts.
Meanwhile, VW boss Herbert Diess is massively promoting the development of its own software.
But it jerks tremendously.
(PF)
