Manufacturing anf Operation Management

The JC Gear Company has decided to initiate a project aimed at automating its production planning and control system. Among the options, the company focuses on two alternatives: (1) purchasing the most suitable system off of the shelf and modifying it according to its individual production needs; or (2) developing a system

From the last two decades auto industry is growing more competitive. Competition from the foreign automakers like Toyota and Honda is also high. In

Continuing with the development and improvement of the assembly line, in the 1960s, new machines were invented that allowed for five axes of motion. These devices were called the “Versatran”, and were installed a Ford factory in Ohio. But later in the decade, robots became even more complex adding another axis it can work

In the contemporary China’s economy, it is no doubt that Auto parts Industry has become one of the fastest growing industries which plays a major role in the development of the domestic manufacture as well as the GDP Growth.

A1. Justification: The streamlined, 5-workstation production line layout was selected bases on an analysis of Shuzworld’s assembly line data at its Shanghai production facility. The 5-workstation assembly line was achieved by using the assembly line balancing tool, which is designed to minimize the imbalance between machines and/or personnel while meeting the amount of output required. Using the data from the assembly schedule provided by the Shanghai production facility, the cycle time (takt time) and the minimum number of workstations was calculated in preparation for using the assembly line balancing tool.

Nowadays, businesses introduce several appliances to their workforce to ease their daily activities. In the article, “The Job-Killing-Robot Myth”, Baker discusses the different views of the use of robots in industries. He states, “the machines are getting smarter, and they’re coming for more and more jobs.” This demonstrates how robots get trained to perform activities that a usual worker would do. Not only robots finish the job at a fast pace, but they also can execute a whole lot of tasks at once.

Ranked sixth out of the entire world, the United States is one of the leading car manufacturers (Cars). With today's assembly and productions lines, manufacturing of products and its availability to us has never been easier. Automotive production lines revolutionized the automotive industry, as well as American life. They made building cars more efficient. Because of the increase in efficiency, the cost to produce a car went down and when production costs were lowered, so was the retail price of the cars. “This price reduction meant more people could afford to buy a vehicle of their own” (How). As a matter of fact, automobiles are one of the prime examples of mass production within assembly and production lines. Automobiles are everywhere. In the year 2011 alone, 59,929,016 cars were produced around the world (Cars), and those numbers and continually rising. In 2012, for the first time in history, over 60 million cars passenger cars

The industrial robots are applied in all branches of the industry. The highest level of application is in the automobile industry, but the number of installed robots is increasing in other industries as well (Karabegovic, Dolecec, Husak, 2011).

There are four major factors affecting the automotive industry: technology, market, customers and the most influential factor – environment. Environment is a source of materials, infrastructure necessary for manufacturing but everything is limited. The process of car or automotive manufacturing is very complex regarding the usage of numerous resources and different technologies ( P. Golinska & M. Kosacka).

This paper deals with the production systems of two major leaders in the automobile market. Mass production is briefly touched up on and its advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Lean production is the emerging trend, which talks about minimizing waste and increasing production. We have also thrown light on when to use lean and mass

Indian automotive industry has witnessed dramatic changes right from liberalisation, 100% FDI through automatic route, steadily rising in national income, steadily rising standard of living, Socio Cultural Revolution of joint families to nuclear families, working couples, change in mind-sets where car was once looked as rare luxury now in some parts of India it is just a necessity, increasing people awareness and they being more

In manufacturing, automation has replaced some dangerous, mundane, arduous and routine manual operations, for example, transportation of heavy parts, stamping of large parts, repetitive welding and bolt fastening. However, skilled operators still carry out critical manual processes in various industries such as aerospace, automotive and heavy-machinery. Most of these processes are complex because operators receive a high number of inputs or because the relations among inputs change dynamically over time (or both). These inputs are; ‎parts, tools, ‎information cues, ‎stimuli, data or ‎procedure [3]. In addition, if these inputs are affected by variability, the complexity of the process will increase.

Every day new varieties of products are being sold in the market ranging from mobile phones to cars to aircrafts. In 1903 there were just 63000 cars worldwide, this count reached 530 million in 2002. Vast amount of industrial engineering techniques were involved in achieving this transformation. But all the research and innovation that goes in their manufacturing stays hidden deep inside them. My aim is to unlock those manufacturing breakthroughs and to focus my research on advancing them.

 Research and development activities affect the competitive advantages of automobile manufacturers due to the important of them in production line efficiency and customer decision making.  The emerging of new technologies such as Hybrid, Artificial Intelligent (AI) and new energy sources has incredible effects on automobile manufacturing industry since those new technologies change the perception of customers on their mobility concept.

The requirements will lead to change the profile of the company even all the automotive industry has thin or less profits due to over capacity of the problem the industries provide integrated system, operate globally raise quality manage warranty costs and engage in replacement of market.