Dacia

Arrival

After a long four hour drive we eventually reached the Mioveni factory. We were met by the reception team and offered some much needed refreshments. After the teachers and students had stretched their legs we were given an interesting 20 minute presentation. We learnt that Logan placed a key role in restoring Dacia’s profitability and that exports had increased dramatically in the last two years. France (not surprisingly) was the main export market for the Logan. The students were surprisingly shy when they were given the opportunity but Vlad Ursarescu impressed the presenter with a query on how Dacia motivated workers that were doing apparently simple tasks on the production line.

The Factory Tour

We donned our earphones so we could hear our guide’s commentary above the noise.

The press shop. We saw steel being stamped into car doors and bonnets. It was very noisy!	The assembly line. We saw the cars move along the line with different parts being attached at each different ‘station’.
Testing the cars. Finished cars were taken into this room and ‘driven’ on a conveyer belt to over 80 kpm.	Now which one shall I buy??? Finished cars at the end of the production line. We were told that a Logan comes off the line ever 1.5 minutes.