Design Of Manufacture Unit And Equipment For Garden Tools Based On Lean Manufacture Concept

Lean production which has revolutionary production management manner is the thirdmillstone of global industrialization history. Its key point is to eliminate waste in all aspectsof a firm s production activities through establishing production system with high agility,flexible and combined. Lean production, six sigma and other conceptions represent thetendency of modern manufacturing industry. It has been credited as the standard productionmanagement approach in the21stcentury. Lean production is not merely a tool, at a deeperlevel it should be comprehended as one kind of enterprise mind, culture, so in the process ofimplementing lean production, much more emphasis should be put on lean culture.[1]STIHL is a global leading manufacturer of chain saws and other power tools for professionalforestry and agriculture as well as for garden and landscape maintenance and the constructionsector, with100years of history. Lean production in the application of equipment design andtooling is very important to improve the core competence.The paper integrates with company s reality, according to Lean production ideas, point outhow to design combined equipment with changeover tooling for a brush cutter. The differenttypes of this series differ among other things in terms of the drive tube, which can be straightor bent. Currently there are several assembly lines wherein there is installed either theassembly equipment for a straight tube or a bent tube. The assembled components arecompletely different ones for the two kinds of drive tubes but they are similar in terms ofshape and size. This leads to the idea of creating combined assembly equipment with thepossibility for a changeover.