Lean manufacturing optimization of automotive motor compartment system

Oshawaʹs Plant #2 Motor Compartment Automated Monorail System (i.e., AMS) process is currently running at only 75% of its original scheduled production capacity. This AMS process was the first one implemented in the Corporation. Since it is the bottleneck, plant personnel feel that effort must be put forth to put in place a system to increase the current uptime to over 90%, creating a greater production capacity. The purpose of this paper is to describe some of these efforts.