Development of a generic requirements catalogue of Volkswagen Navarra’s product for new launches

Abstract

The project is focused on the development of a catalogue with generic technical requirements that must be achieved by next generations of car models inside Volkswagen Group, especially vehicles of Volkswagen Navarra, where it has been carried out. This catalogue is an important document of the Project Premises, one step of the PEP, which is the process employed at Volkswagen Group to design and launch a new model. In that step, the catalogue must be followed point by point to study the feasibility of each one of the requirements, which are mainly thought to avoid past problems related with the assembly of the car emerged in the factory, as well as ensuring the continuity of successful methods, introducing new assembly concepts, improving the ergonomics of the workers, etc. To introduce the project, the current situation of the market position and sales of Volkswagen has been described, as well as the explanation step by step of the production process performed in Volkswagen Navarra to have a slight but clear idea of the company’s working method and its reliability and accuracy. In addition, the different sources consulted to introduce the points of the catalogue have been explained with clarifying examples, as well as explaining and analyzing the informatics tool employed to save the catalogue points.