In face of diversification and shorter product life-cycles, automotive companies need to enhance the efficiency of product development processes in order to confine development costs per sold vehicle. LD (Lean Development) offers principles, methods and tools for that aim. Most of the employed methods, of which value stream mapping is the most prominent, have a process-based approach. Here a complementary approach is introduced. Analysed is the product development activities across all currently active processes. The application of the method to a test setting is described in the four main steps structuring, analysis, definition of countermeasures and implementation. The method comprises quantitative as well as qualitative analysis, in order to evaluate effects as well as to understand causes. It was employed in a major automotive company's car body design department, which comprises about 600 employees. The analysis' results show that 31% of activities, measured in man hours, within that particular department were non-value adding, complemented by 39% of required non-value adding activities. These figures are in line with conventional process-based types of analysis in similar environments. Over 25 countermeasures were identified, which were estimated to entail a potential for 37% increase in capacity. The presented snap-shot approach proved to complement process-based approaches in LD.
Lean development in the automotive industry: The snap-shot approach
2008
10 Seiten, 4 Bilder, 14 Quellen
Conference paper
English
Lean development on the automotive industry: the snap-shot approach
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