The Sika Experience

Right now while I am writing this blog is our first sunny morning in Paris, what a good day ! I even start to imagine the biking tour we’ll have in the afternoon…

The last two days were great, we visited the laboratory in Zurich which is dealing with body in white technology in car manufacturing process, we had a introduction in Sika power adhesive product and got to make a performance test on them. Then we traveled to Romanshorn having a tour in one of Sika’s partner company which produces 2-K injected Baffle reinforcing parts, and each of us even got a “home made” present – a pen box made in the plant :-)  Before arriving in Munich in Germany we had a long drive about 3 hours, there we spent a wonderful night with the company of Simon and his wife. For the dinner in Hofbrauhaus (HB – one of the “must going” restaurant in Munich) I ordered a traditional Bavarian food – “Crisp roast knuckle of pork” served with grated potato dumpling, that one was fantastic, not only in terms of taste but also in terms of quantity, both of us couldn’t finish our dishes in the end ! And of course at least one glass (1 L !) of bear is the prerequisite for allowing you to have a meal in HB, those who don’t usually drink bear be careful ! :-) Life is cool …

On Friday we paid a visit to the BMW plant and BMW museum in Munich. The BMW ( Bavarian Motor Works ) manufacturing line in Munich is the most highly automatical one among all car manufactures in the world, and it’s just incredible to face in front of you hundreds of robotics working together under one roof and the level of precise of them – where to move, what to do, when to start, everything is so well controlled by the preseting program. Thanks to this, the production capacity is 200,000 cars per year, which means more than 500 per day, 1 in 2 minutes ! That is so cool ~~ Then we immersed ourselves in the historical development of BMW in the museum where people could have a look at very old styles of cars and engines.

Now comes Paris, more exciting things will follow !