Productivity improvement of a motor vehicle inspection station using motion and time study techniques

This research was carried out at the Motor Vehicle Periodic Inspection (MVPI) station to improve and enhance the bottleneck inspection point by using different applications to reduce the inspection time. The main problem of this research was an inspection point (No. 1) which consumed more time in comparison with the other inspection points. Accordingly, this inspection point increases the flow time in the inspection lanes. This research investigated and searched for possible solutions and alternatives aimed at achieving the objective using some tools from motion and time study and ARENA software to simulate and predict the changes expected to occur in the inspection lanes. Overall, the suggested alternatives yielded an expected improvement of 174.8% in the production capacity.