Multi-Variant Truck Production - Product Variety and its Impact on Production Quality in Manual Assembly

• The trend of diversifying product portfolios increases the challenges for global manufactures to keep production processes robust and maintainhigh quality. Manufacturing trucks with high level of customization increases the vulnerability to quality deviations in the assembly process.By studying eight manual assembly stations, at a truck manufacturing plant, it was found that high product variety has negative impact onproduction quality and that high production complexity is connected to high product variety. The study also showed that if operators do nothave proper information systems, with accurate data, they need to trust their own knowledge and skills. Results imply that more research isneeded to address how the production of products with high variety can be handled to lower the exposure to quality deviations.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Multi-Serial Production

Production Quality

Percevied Production Complexity

Cycle Time

Product Variety

Operations Management

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