Date of Award
Winter 2014
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering
Keywords
Applied sciences, Cost control, Lead time reduction, Low volume products
Supervisor
Urbanic, Jill
Supervisor
Frise, Peter
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
In this research, an investigation of the lead time reduction and cost control for vehicles with special parts ordered by the customers was performed. The production flow is not continuous for the installation of these parts. There is always time wasted waiting for the units. The aim of this research was to discover revised procedures to reduce lead time and costs. Value stream mapping was the tool to analyze the process. Flexsim(TM) was the software used to simulate different production cases. The results from the simulations indicate that under the current production volume, moving the program back to the plant is the best option since it will reduce the waiting time between the plant and installation facility. Furthermore, it can reduce the overall manufacturing lead times and improve cost effectiveness. If the production volume increases, space, equipment and management limitations may require plants to use alternative production models and these limits should be studied in future research.
Recommended Citation
Lin, Yupeng, "Investigation of Alternatives for Up-fitting Lead Time Reduction for Vehicle Assembly" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5027.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5027