Research For The Optimization Based On Harness Module Shipment In L Company Workshop

With the sustained development of global economic integration and the marketingcompetition, the automotive industry has come into a low-profit era.When facing the moreand more complicated marketing trend, all the vehicle-makers are seeking for a way to besuperior to others.Different from the traditional part number shipment mode that other automotivecompanies used, the module shipment mode from VW makes all the suppliers confrontedwith the new challenge that they’ve ever seen. Under this mode, OEM will provide themodule requirement information instead of the parts number. When receiving the orderinformation, suppliers will assemble the products according to the module requirements.Due to the shipment mode will not allow suppliers to prepare the stocks in advance,,once anything happen at suppliers’, it will directly affect the shipment to final customers.The main investigation in the thesis is the manufacturing operation optimization forthe workshops based on shipment mode and how to optimize the operation process bysupplier integration management, manufacturing stability control, value stream map tomake the company become more suitable for the new challenge.