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Transactions: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, APPLICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT
Transactions ID Number: 20-750
Full Name: Baba Md Deros
Position: Associate Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment,Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Country: MALAYSIA
Tel: +603-89216117
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Fax: +603-89259659
E-mail address: hjbaba@eng.ukm.my
Other E-mails: mhdhrs@yahoo.com
Title of the Paper: Setup Time Reduction in an Automotive Battery Assembly Line
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Deros B.M., Mohamad D., Idris M.H.M., Rahman M.N.A., Ghani J.A., Ismail A.R
Email addresses of all the authors: hjbaba@eng.ukm.my, darliana_mohamad@yahoo.com, idris@yahoo.com, mnizam@eng.ukm.my, jaharah@eng.ukm.my, arasdan@gmail.com
Number of paper pages: 8
Abstract: Many manufacturers face cost-reduction and efficiency challenges in their manufacturing operations. To survive in today's highly competitive world, manufacturers need to find ways to reduce production time and costs in order to improve operating performance and product quality. Nowadays, targets of an increased productivity, operational availability and better overall efficiency of the production line are the most important goals for almost all manufacturing companies. The main objective of this study is to improve battery assembly line setup time and at the same time reduce the manufacturing costs. The specific objectives of the study are firstly to reduce setup time; secondly to identify existing and expected problems and implement and identify potential process improvements in the assembly line and thirdly to measure setup time reduction performance in terms of time and cost, productivity, quality and operational availability and flexibility. The result shows th!
at this study has achieved more than the target 35% of setup time reduction. From setup time reduction, a total cost savings of RM168, 000 was achieved in assembly line A. Meanwhile the company level a total saving of RM1.11million was achieved for all assembly lines in Company X. Other various benefit also achieved from SMED implementation and this study also shows that tooling cost is not a major factor contributing to the increase in manufacturing costs for this company.
Keywords: bottleneck, cost saving, lean manufacturing, setup time, SMED
EXTENSION of the file: .doc
Special (Invited) Session: Cost Saving in an Automotive Battery Assembly Line Using Setup Time Reduction
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