Worker assistance systems in the automotive prototype assembly – A case study
| Autor: | Stephan Rupp, Rainer Müller |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Flexibility (engineering)
Computer science business.industry Process (engineering) Automotive industry Competitor analysis Original equipment manufacturer Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Manufacturing engineering Artificial Intelligence New product development Key (cryptography) Production (economics) business |
| Zdroj: | Procedia Manufacturing. 55:350-357 |
| ISSN: | 2351-9789 |
| Popis: | In the increasingly volatile and competitive environment of the mobility industry, introducing new innovative products faster than competitors forms a key success factor for OEMs. To increase strategic flexibility, it is critical to speed up the development process while at the same time reducing the cost per vehicle project. Despite the increasing use of virtual methods in product development and production system design, hardware prototypes are indispensable for the series development today and will remain necessary in the foreseeable future. As these prototypes are very costly and their production tedious, companies are trying to reduce the number of pre-series vehicles required and optimize their production. Therefore, the authors developed a worker assistance system specifically designed for the pre-series production, that aims at increasing efficiency and maximizing the benefit for the series development. This paper reports on a case study that evaluated the application of this assistance system in a real industry environment. The results show that the assessed approach offers a significant potential to speed up the prototype assembly (up to 40% in the examined case), while at the same time contributing to the series assembly system development by systematically testing, correcting and evaluating planned series procedures. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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