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SPECIAL FEATURE 特别报道
Hartmut Mueller, Managing Director of MAN Truck & Bus (M) Sdn Bhd
MAN Truck & Bus Malaysia gave Truck & Bus News a complete and thorough tour of its factory in Munich, Germany last year.
The Munich facility is the parent plant and the location of MAN’s head office, with a total of 9,000 employees. In addition to mak- ing complete heavy series trucks (gross vehicle weight from 18 to 41 tonnes), it also produces cabs and drive axles for other MAN plants, and transfer cases and drive shafts for the entire plant network.
Let’s start with a bit of background information. Production of MAN trucks and buses dates back 100 years but for a few
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decades, the vehicles were only produced in Nuremberg. It was not until the post-war period that Munich became a key site for MAN. The production and sale of the Nuremberg trucks increased continuously until it reached capac- ity limits with no further expansion possibilities in 1954. This led to the construction of the Mu- nich plant in 1955 and the first truck rolled off the assembly line on November 15, 1955. One year later, more than 3,000 vehicles were produced.
MAN celebrated 2015 as the 60th anniversary of this plant’s opening. Today, the Munich facil- ity has produced more than a million trucks, 2.3 million axles and 1.5 million cabs.
Another important mile- stone happened in 1971 when MAN took over Büssing-Automobilwer- ke in Salzgitter as a gateway to bus produc- tion. And because the mountain lion Büssing had roared so well in the market, it was im-
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幕后故事:参观
去年,马来西亚曼 商用车亚公司 邀请《卡客车新 闻》到它慕尼黑的工厂,做 了一个详细全面的参观。
曼位于慕尼黑的设施包括“ 母工厂”和总公司,员工 总数约9,000人。该厂除了 制造完整的重卡系列(车全 重介于18至41吨之间),也 为曼的其他工厂提供驾驶室 和驱动轴,以及为整个工厂 的网络供应转速箱和传动轴 (drive shafts)。
让我们先从工厂的背景谈 起。曼商用车的生产可追溯 至100年前,不过他们的车 子好几十年来都由纽仑堡 工厂制造,慕尼黑工厂是到 了战后才成为曼的主要工 厂。1954年,纽仑堡的销售 和产量持续增加,直到达到 产能限制,无法进一步扩展 产能。曼于是在1955年建 了慕尼黑工厂,同年11月15 日,第一辆卡车下线,该厂 的卡车产量在一年后超过3 ,000辆。
2015年,曼庆祝该厂成立60 周年。今天,该厂生产超过1 百万辆卡车、230万个车轴及 150万个驾驶室。
1971年,该公司达到另一个重 要的里程碑,接管了萨尔茨基 特(Salzgitter)的Büssing 汽车公司及其狮子的标志,开 始进军巴士生产。由于此“ 狮子”在市场上获得极好的回 响,它因此成了曼商用车的永 恒标志。
我们有幸有曼商用车(马) 私人有限公司董事经理米勒 (Hartmut Mueller)作为响 导,并被他照顾得很好。他 带着我们参观工厂里的每一 站,而且会在需要的时候停 下来,让我们尽情发问和探 索。他就像是个能说会走的 曼慕尼黑工厂百科全书。