Top Column Module Production Line Balance Improvement Of V Company

As the world economy gradually goes out of the financial crisis impact,China domestic Auto market develop rapidly because of people's material and cultural needs increasing, Auto industry competition is intense,for Auto parts manufacturing factory,on one hand,they face competition from their Competitor,on another hand,they have to decrease the price every year from their customer.It becomes importance for these manufacturing factory,to implement lean manufacturing internal,to reduce the manufacturing cost,and increase the production efficiency.In this article, it discuss about V company Top Column Module production assembly line balance. Use the time measurement to collect current production line related indicator data,optimize the process by using eliminate, combination, rearrangement, simplification tools,and Single minute exchange die,visual management, also implement some Kaizen activity,such as build up phantom station,reduce camera inpection frequency,rearrange the station sequence, SMED activity on punch tool change.With these Kaizen activities, eliminate several bottel neck station of Top column Module line,increase the line capacity to fulfill customer demand,also improve the production assembly line balance.The output is increase with same quantity operators,that means,the manufacturing labor cost is reduce.After implement the line capacity and balance improvement in Top Column Module production line, the takt time decrease from 80 seconds to 56 seconds, the line balance ratio increase to 91% from 65.8%.achieve 520000 RMB saving every year. Also line balance improvement build the sample for other production line, they can learn something and get belief from this improvement activity, especially for some line which is made of some difference process automatically stations.