Part Flow Tracking and Visualization
Sandalwood Part Flow Tracking - MES

Customer Challenge

Automotive OEM needed productivity improvements in their assembly process.

  • Reduce changeover downtime
  • Better planning and scheduling
  • Optimize part flow in plant

Solution Approach

Assessed Current Situation, Designed and Executed a part tracking and visualization system that:

  • Communicate part flow to the lineside operators in real-time.
  • Ensure proper parts are all available to the operators in their stations at the right time.
  • Track the location of each unit throughout the assembly process and present part flow visualization to the operators on in-station HMIs.

Results

Quality

Less misbuilds by emphasizing unit type and the part required for each assembly for the operator

Productivity

Greatly reduced downtime losses (sometimes 5% or more) by better communicating batch flow through the process and helping ensure operators have the proper parts available

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