Shanghai Volkswagen Co. Ltd. was formed in 1984 as a joint venture between Volkswagen and SAIC to produce passenger cars in Shanghai. In 2015, the company produced over 1.5 million vehicles under the Volkswagen and Skoda brands. The internship objective was for the intern to study manufacturing, CAD, and communication skills by shadowing engineering professionals and assisting with quality improvement, data analysis, and equipment maintenance. During the one to two month internship, the intern gained experience in various manufacturing and maintenance areas and improved problem-solving and teamwork skills, receiving positive evaluations.

1. INTERNSHIP REPORT
COMPANY BACKGROUND
Shanghai Volkswagen Co. Ltd. was formed in 1984, as a joint venture between
Volkswagen and SAIC. This was a 25-year contract to make passenger cars in Shanghai
with a limit of 50 per cent foreign ownership. Shanghai Volkswagen's Shanghai plant was
by the far the winner among all new JVs, as it produced cars that could function as taxis,
vehicles for government officials and transport for the newly emerging business elite
under the Volkswagen and Škoda marques. It reached 1,527,008 units (1,305,450 from
VW brand such as Lamando, Cross Polo, New Polo, and Passat etc and 221,558 from
Skoda brand such as Octavia, Rapid, Fabia etc).
INTERNSHIP OBJECTIVE
 Study and practice manufacturing, CAD, communication skills in daily operation
on site during internship period.
 Improve self-problem solving and data analysis skills to identify root causes of
cars’ defects.
 Develop a strong sense of responsibility and initiative to deal with technical issues
in production.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES
 Continuously communicated with Quality Engineering, Vendor, Purchasing
Engineering and Workers at the assembly site to monitor and improved related
quality and processing areas as well as provided problem solving assistance for
improvements in process-ability, quality, performance, productivity and cost.
 Assisted to analyze statistical data and CAD measurement to identify root causes
of defects with Purchasing Engineering and Body Construction Engineering to
implement appropriate countermeasures at associated facility, such as vendor,
body construction, and final assembly.

2.  Continuously made suggestions, communicates with all facilities and met with
Germany Engineers to improve processes in regards to quality and productivity at
the assembly site.
 Assisted instrument technicians to take care of daily equipment’s operation, such
as maintain, update, analyze maintenance records and troubleshooting production
line on site.
 Studied and analyzed troubleshooting cases to remove the root cause and avoid
reappearance.
SUMMARY
In the beginning of 2015, I officially started my internship as a manufacturing
engineering role in such a great company, Shanghai Volkswagen Co. Ltd. During the one
to two month, I shadowed several professional engineering, belong to manufacturing and
maintenance department, to study areas including auto final assembly, manufacturing
process, quality and productivity improvement, production line supervision, data analysis,
CAD design, equipment maintenance and troubleshooting as well as communication and
association between varies departments and vendors, etc. According to this valuable
experience, I improved problem solving, team work and project execution skills, which
achieved a high performance evaluation from team leaders and project managers. Due to
the security treaty between Shanghai Volkswagen and me, these relative work and
achievement cannot be presented in this report; however, I would sincerely appreciate
this opportunity to develop a strong sense of self responsibility, technology innovation,
time management, and team leadership. Finally, great thanks to the colleagues, leaders
as well as relative partners of Shanghai Volkswagen.
Intern: Ziyu WANG
Supervisor: Guoquan Zhu
Date: 2/10/2015