Company trips (Gartner Group)

 The mockup room

 Testing facility 

 Piece of a building sitting in the yard

 BMW Museum (two cones) Munich

June Twelfth, 2012 –

Today was a ridiculously early start, but once we arrived and our presentation began it was definitely worth it and it was an awesome experience.  The company we visited was Josef-Gartner, and they are a part of the Permasteelisa group.  “At its headquarters in Germany GARTNER designs and manufactures mainly custom-made envelopes in aluminum and steel.” (Gartner).  Our first stop was a brief power point presentation that gave us an overview of the company and some of the many projects they have been a part of.  Our next stop was their prototype/mockup room, which held many partially structured pieces and they all had working parts in order to show the clients what the product would be like.  After the mockups we toured the actual manufacturing plant and all the different stages of the actual manufacturing.  At the end of the walk through the company was nice enough to even provide a very nice lunch for all of us at the café right next door to the plant.  Just to give you an idea of the size of this companies total physical size in Munich was something around 500,000 Square meters.

This tour lasted a pretty long time and the total trip time was also a few hours so when we finally got back into town most of us came home and changed or showered.  After cleaning up a few of us decided to go the Houfbrau House once again and get a beer and some dinner.  I was definitely a little tired after the long day so I called it an early night once again, especially since we have to be downstairs at 7:10 am tomorrow…