The concept of “lean” has roots in mass production, originally in the automotive industry, and most famously, at Toyota, where Ford Motor’s original Rouge manufacturing complex was used as its benchmark. Toyota’s managers studied the text of Today and Tomorrow, a book written during 1926 by Henry Ford. Ford conceived the idea of a moving assembly line, after observing the meat packing plants in...

Since the beginning of 21st century, China's automobile market has shown a rapid development trend. To meet domestic demand for industry and provide convenience transportation, manufacturers have made long-term innovations, explorations, theoretical verifications, designed more advanced reasonable materials manufacturing processes, gradually moving towards lightweighting adopting processes. Thi...

Constraints on assembly plans vary depending on product, assembly facility, assembly volume, and many other factors. This paper describes the principles and implementation of a framework that supports a wide variety of user-speci ed constraints for interactive assembly planning. Constraints from many sources can be expressed on a sequencing level, specifying orders and conditions on part mating...

Walking being the oldest form of urban transport, and until the advent of major transformationsin transport technology in the nineteenth century, most cities were structured in ways that supported walkability.Today, there is a change in transportation which emphasizes, the traditional pedestrian paths which are increasinglybecoming non-regulated spaces when compared to the urban spaces for auto...

As an indispensable part of the automobile factory transmission system, assembly line has a high level automation and can play as pioneer in digital transformation production. However, for production process, especially front middle case, there are many problems, such low degree informatization, efficiency information transmission, lack platform rapid release sharing. This leads to difficulty t...