Improving productivity and efficiency of a vehicle seat assembly line in a manufacturing company

Author

Ismail, N. ; Tai, S.S. ; Leman, Z.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Manuf. Eng., Univ. Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

94

Lastpage

97

Abstract

This project is carried out to improve the productivity and efficiency of a vehicle seat assembly line in a local automotive vehicle part manufacturer. The existing vehicle seat assembly line is studied first using a line balancing and simulation approach. The data collected from the existing line are operating time and processes, material handling system, workstation layout and equipment and bill of materials. A new layout of the assembly line is proposed. The productivity and efficiency comparison of the existing assembly line and the proposed assembly line are also highlighted.

Keywords

assembling; automobile industry; control system analysis; control system synthesis; process control; automotive vehicle part manufacturer; control design; control simulation; efficiency; manufacturing company; productivity; vehicle seat assembly line; Assembly systems; Automotive engineering; Manufactured products; Manufacturing; Production; Productivity; Standards development; Torque; Vehicles; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research and Development, 2002. SCOReD 2002. Student Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7565-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCORED.2002.1033065

Filename

1033065