Optimization Of Vehicle Manufacturer Customer Acceptance Line Assembly

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K.P. Devakaran,

Abstract

The optimization of vehicle manufacturer customer acceptance line helps in minimizing installation cost and workstations in the ford assembly. The literature survey depicts that the minimization of the workstations can be achieved by DMAIC six-sigma tool to increase the production rate. The optimization of ford assembly have various problems such as cost-oriented, assembly line balancing and cancellation of repetitive workstations. The assembly line balancing includes assigning of workstation check points in order to create a work flow for the ford assembly in the conveyor.


The present Customer Acceptance Line (CAL) conveyor consists of seventeen workstation for the ford assembly in checking the electrical, electronic and mechanical accessories malfunctioning which involves more consumption of time and repetitive human works. The proposed optimization of the Ford customer acceptance line enhances the work flow by reducing cycle time using time and motion analysis to appropriate work time limits and equal work load distribution in the workstation. Out of the seventeen workstation in Customer Acceptance Line, the repetitive stations such as manual electrical checkout and machine electrical checkout systems are optimized to improve the production rate in less time.


Thus the optimization of ford customer acceptance line helps in eliminating labour cost, current consumption charge with reduction of workstation and also improves the production line efficiency with minimal work space.

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