Japanese automotive industry has been suffering from the labor shortage in recent years which is caused by the labor's general trend of avoiding primary and secondary industries and the overall aging of work force. The automated and unmanned manufacturing shops have been introduced as one of the solutions for these situations. Further, the Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) has been developed and implemented in each manufacturing process to quickly accommodate the changes in marketing environment in accordance with the diversified customer taste and needs. To cope with the fluctuation in production volume (the quantitative change and the production model transfer among the plants) and the model change-over quickly and flexibly at low cost with high quality, we in NISSAN SHATAI have developed and set up a flexible welding/assembly line for the main body assembly process - he Intelligent Body Assembly System ('IBAS') - which can accommodate a wide variety of vehicle types ranging from one-box van to sub-compact passenger car. This paper describes the details and features of this new 'IBAS' main body line, concerning the main body locating jig process ('NC Locater') which forms the key element of this system.
Development of a flexible main body assembly line
Entwicklung einer flexiblen Montagelinie für Autokarosserien
1993
7 Seiten, 5 Bilder
Conference paper
English
Development of a flexible main body assembly line
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