Engine Assembly Line

Reduced Cycle Time By 7%

Performance Improvement

Problem Statement

Old assembly line was working at designed takt time but an increase in market demand was expected in near future

Case Drilldown:

Linecraft correctly identified a semi-automated torquing station as a bottleneck for the existing throughput. Its cycle data analysis showed that the automatic part of the cycle is consistent every time, but there’s a high variability in the time for manual work content.

Automatic work content is consistent compared to manual work in terms of time taken to execute

Manual work content

Automatic work content

Result

Supervisor used this insight to redefine the work instructions and fix the sequence of nut running activity at the station, leading to a line level impact on throughput.

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