The Application Of Cell Production In Auto Parts Manufacturing, Taking SP For Example

With the automobile consumption market scale expanding andautomobile industry chain developing fiercely, more and more carmanufacturers and auto parts suppliers join the fray. The expansion of carconsumption market and increase of car manufacturing capacity bring usopportunities to develop car parts industry. Under the circumstance of carproducts diversification and car consumption personalization and the"tiny profits" era of car parts industry, manufacturers hope to occupy themarket share through scale effect to enhance competitiveness. However,they have the difficulty about low delivering punctuality rate of materialsupporting with more varieties small bulk. To solve the problems theenterprises faces, the management techniques are urgently needed to beimproved to solve the long circle, the difficulty in matching materials anddelivery problems in producing the parts. Enterprises’practice proves thatthe unit production is one of the ways to reduce production cycleeffectively and inventory pressure in more variety and minor batchproduction. And it advocates "celling" and "mobile" production which ischaracterized by the flexibility and rapid response, which can alleviate thedilemma of material supporting in variety and minor batch mode andproduction delivering difficulty.First of all, the paper based on the difficulties SP companyencounters in operating spells out difficulties in production organization,control of production planning and delivery problem of auto partscompanies and explains the feasibility and necessity of implementing cellproduction combined the SP company route status, such as currentequipment layout, product process and soon. Secondly, the U equipmentgroups should be built according to the requirement of cell production ofequipment and personnel flexibility and the positions are set accordingly.With unitized U facilities layout and the post settings, unit productionteams are established with a balance production line and the rates ofmultipurpose utilization of equipment group are analyzed. Last, the buildunit production assessment system should be built with the appropriateunit production assessment index and the system should be evaluated comprehensively, after which the optimization and improvement of thecell production should be searched and continuous improvement shouldbe made in the subsequent units production process.