Transport Effort

ISBN-13: 9783639075267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 116 str.

David Sly

Opis

Automotive assembly plants are unique from other industrial facilities in that they combine high output volume with high part counts (over 4,000 per vehicle) and high variety in a product flow layout involving a large quantity of fixed position material handling equipment. While assembly plants share common factory layout issues such as, dock placement, storage placement, transport batch sizes and aisle design, it is the high material flow volumes of large and heavy products coupled with the less layout flexibility, due to fixed equipment, that make automotive assembly plants uniquely suited for the evaluation and benchmarking metrics proposed in this dissertation. This dissertation proposes new metrics capable of evaluating and comparing automotive assembly plant designs based on the efficiency of each plants aisle design, dock placement and intensity allocation. These performance metrics are generated from readily available information and are evaluated against hypothetical "best case" and "worst case" scenarios. These metrics have been developed for use by practitioners to design and benchmark automotive assembly plants.

O autorze

Sly David David Sly, PE is a globally recognized expert in the design of Manufacturing Process Engineering and Factory Design tools and techniques. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from Iowa State University. David is president of Proplanner.COM, and an adjunct faculty member at Iowa State University.