This paper discusses the challenging aspects of dock design to support a just-in-time material delivery system in an automotive body shop. The manufacturing processes and the material delivery system in the body shop were designed with lean manufacturing principle. As a result, internal storage areas were eliminated, non-value added man-power was reduced as much as possible, line side inventory was kept to a minimum, and operating cost of the material delivery system was minimized through the design of a hybrid system consisting of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) and Fork Trucks. The critical parameters of the system were evaluated and established through detailed discrete event simulation.
Dock Analysis for Lean Material Delivery - An Automotive Case Study
Sae Technical Papers
SAE Automotive Manufacturing Conference & Exposition ; 2000
2000-06-06
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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