Toshiba Notebook

Production: We will significantly increase automation levels on our products. However, because automation sets limits upon our ability to reposition products with R&D, we will postpone automation for the High End and Size products until they arrive in the Traditional Segment. We will prefer second shift/overtime to capacity expansions.

Of course, I won’t say that this estimate of three weeks is as certain as our other time estimates. All we need is a change of staff at the Agency and we are in trouble. But once we have both the specifications and the approval, you can immediately start on developing the production processing system (g).”

Assembly lines are a big part of manufacturing in almost every country in the world. Some work better than others, so an analytical breakdown would be required to be able to tell which factories and countries are more effective than others, and what they do to get that way.

It remoulds the manufacturing industries with optimized productivity by making a radical departure from traditional mastery of a craft and rationalizing work, skills and routines. It is the most common strategies conducted in nowadays large scale secondary industries as its outputs are easily quantifiable and predictable. Also, other industries are adhered to the principles of assembly line (Whitfield, 2004). McDonald is one of the typical examples that demonstrates the incorporation of it into the service industries. Staff mechanically repeat the same specialized task, frying French fries, making hamburgers, filling cups with soft drinks and etc. Customers also inherently conform to the rationalized business mode of McDonald by filing forward in queues to get the meal as if on a conveyor belt. This illustrates that the influence of the assembly line is wide-ranging, profound and long-lasting.

While negotiating the supplier contract, Semicontronics realizes the memory in its current computer chips will have to be significantly increased to support the technical capabilities of Phoneson’s electronics. Its current manufacturing plant in Brazil is not equipped to meet these new demands, and an upgrade at this stage in a new customer endeavor is not economically feasible for Semicontronics.

Although a major drawback of this method is the initial investment required to establish a production facility. This may result in capital is for a considerable time have a large amount of bound until it profitable factory. The assembly line is still the most important in the 20th century.Production technological progress with lines wiped out many of the disadvantages of the prior methods.There are three main factors that result from the assembly line a great success. First, there is no special training in the assembly line, which means that it jobs that almost anyone can make it necessary. Before the assembly line was invented, people who had worked in a group to wait for someone who can not deliver their part of the work on time. Once someone does not do

The Excel OM line balancing program suggests that the number of work stations can be reduced from eight to one incorporating tasks A-H into the same workstation. The program also suggests that the plant should reduce the cycle time to 46 minutes, from the original sixty minutes; this would elevate fourteen minutes of idle time and improve efficiency to 100% on the work boot assembly line, at the Shanghai plant. Kaleb has done what he set out to do so far on this part of his job assignment at Shuzworld Shanghai Plant, he has defined the proper number of workstations as one, he has shown them how to improve efficiency on the assemble line and has given the management team a metric through the Excel OM output to be able to understand the changes that need to take

From the standpoint of the labor process, these functions can be grouped around the design and assembly of printed circuit boards and related components, the final assembly of systems (called box-build) and logistics and inventory-related work (Lüthje, Schumm and Sproll 2002). Contract manufacturers are serving a growing range of product markets from Personal Computers and servers, over Internet routers and switching gear, to communications equipment (especially mobile phones), consumer products such as computer game or television sets, industrial and automotive electronics, as well as space and aircraft electronics.

Circuit Board Fabricators, Inc. is a small manufacturer of circuit boards located in California. (Chase, Jacobs, and Aquilano, 2004) Large computer companies such as Apple and Hewlett-Packard hire Circuit Board Fabricators to "make boards for prototypes of new products." (Chase, et al., 2004) The case study suggests that Circuit Board Fabricators has a good business plan established within the organization. CBF has implemented a largely automated process using industry standard codes to produce the four circuit boards that have been developed to be able to give quick and high quality service.

Boeing made use of lean techniques in their production system and increased its production by 50% and also reduced its floor space by 40%. Assembling a Boeing 737 is a typical job. Workers should take 367,000 parts, an same number of bolts, rivets, other equipment and 36 miles (58 kilometres) of electrical wire and then keep them all combined to make an airplane [2]. Engineers to machinists were involved in lean (reducing waste) in the factory. By creating an assembly line, aircraft will pass through the workers were they going to concentrate on assembling. Allocating all employees in the factory building and organising special teams helped a lot to solve the errors in the assembly line [2]. In the assembly line, there are eight beacon lights which reflect the production status. If everything is good it shows green colour. If an error occurs, the worker will press a button and the green light will changes to yellow and the panel board will shows the category of the problem(which category it is related to). The worker will pass on to a computer and writes about the problem in a brief manner and the problem should be assigned to special team to solve it within 30 minutes if not, the light turns to purple and the assembly line will shuts down. This moving assembly is the icon of factory’s lean strategies.

The number of hours (N) provided per machine is: N = (2 shifts/day × 8 hours/shift × 5 days/week × 52 weeks/year)(1.0 – 0.2) = 3,328 hours/machine The capacity requirements for three forecasts are:

The assembly line is designed in such a way that the motions of the workers are minimized to the extent possible. The parts are transferred in sequence between stations through conveyors. The production line is explained with a brief description of the processes carried out in each station. The figure7 shows the assembly line with manual and automatic stations. Station 1, 4 and 8 are manual stations and the rest of the stations are automated. The processes carried out in each station is described

The PC cell contains state-of-the-art robotics equipment requiring little human intervention. The equipment is designed to select the component parts while still packaged, load its feeder bins, and automatically insert the components into PC boards based on a computerized XY insertion program. There is also a JIT stockroom facility near the production areas, and a separate MRP system. Parts purchased for the 440A must meet special JIT requirements. Suppliers are requested to use bar-coded labels to identify their shipments for optical wanding into inventory, and the automatic equipment requires specially designed packaging tubes and parts for taping for autoinsertion of PC components. Furthermore, the delivery of most JIT parts must be weekly (instead of usual monthly delivery), in order to maintain a minimum of inventory in the stockroom. Deliveries must be highly reliable to prevent stockouts and line shutdowns. The parts that Carl is considering resourcing are four integrated circuits (ICs), seven diodes, and three transistors. These parts are all low-cost, industry-standard parts, with the exception of five of the diodes, which are manufactured by only one company, Monitor Inc. Monitor is the industry leader in diodes and transistors and supplies Acacia with quality parts at competitive prices for other plotters. While the 440A was still in the design phase, Carl and the electrical engineers began preliminary

Eliminating the inefficiencies created by the lack of defined procedures for returning excess inventory from the assembly lines to the raw materials warehouse is the objective of Electrolux. Establishing a written procedure and implementing it through consistent employee training will eliminate waste and reduce costs, while improving operations at the Memphis factory. For manned manufacturing systems, work process design pertains to crafting efficient manufacturing processes (Ham & Park, 2014). Efficient workflow is important to the performance of a system, as the absence can create bottlenecks and cause performance to decline. Potential exists for bottlenecks and performance decline on the Electrolux assembly lines as excess material clutters the area, making it difficult for employees to perform the tasks assigned, within the designated time allotted. However, an analysis of workstation functions can assist in determining the appropriate time to relieve excess materials from the assembly line and who should perform this function. The assembly line workstation should include a material disposition process at the end of each day, or during the changeover time to the next model variant.

Design for assembly (DFA) should be considered at all stages of the design process, but especially the early stages. As the design team conceptualizes alternative solutions, it should give serious consideration to the ease of