Continuous process improvement is critical for organisations to stay in business. An automotive component manufacturer faced productivity challenges after the launch of a new hybrid C-SUV automobile South Africa. This paper aims improve seat cover sewing line through balancing technique. The use standard times balance production initially led bottlenecks, and cycle time was above takt assembly ...

With the development of automobile industry, automobile glass type and quantity increased quickly. Automobile glass not only protects the passenger, but also affects the security, appearance of automobile and passenger’s comfort. As a result, optical performance of automobile glass, which is the most parameter, has provoked the attention of manufacturer and consumer. At present, the detection t...

Today, planning and control of logistic processes on automobile terminals are generally executed by centralised logistics systems, which cannot cope with high requirements for flexible order processing due to increasing dynamics and complexity. The main business processes on automobile terminals – notification of vehicles by automobile manufacturer, transport to automobile terminal, storage and...

Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) are designed to cope with mass customization problem. Assembly (RAS) a variant of this RMS concept in the assembly field. One most crucial issues designing RAS is layout problem human safety considerations. This paper’s main motivation propose methodology determine efficient and safe arrangement facilities workshop. The objective twofold: (i) minimize ...

Several Indian metropolitan cities are willing to adopt and explore various methods implement transit-oriented development (TOD) around their transit stations reverse the ongoing trend of automobile-oriented urbanization. Implementation development-based Land value capture (LVC) schemes in emerging middle-income countries asks understand adapt locally-specific favorable macro conditions such as...

The Japanese automobile industry has been hit sharply by the economic downturn of recent decades. The rise in costs and decline in sales have led to serious problems in the auto industry. In order to address these issues, most companies engage in downsizing and redesigning production operations. It is crucial to investigate the time wasted by replacing assembly boards occurring in manufacturing...

UNLABELLED Work environment affects human productivity and his performance. The aims of this study were to investigate the effects of lighting and noise levels on human productivity in the automotive assembly industry. METHOD Subjects were 181 workers from different parts of an automobile assembly industry. Illuminance (Lx) at the height of 30 inches from the surface of work station and noise...