Digital twin-driven productions have opened great opportunities to increase the efficiency and quality of production processes. Smart assembly lines are one these in which effects geometric variations mating parts on assemblies can be minimized. These utilize different techniques, including selective locator adjustments, improve quality. This paper signifies that achievable improvements through...

Decentralised bargaining in the Australian automotive assembly industry Russell D. Lansbury, Chris Wright and Marian Baird The University of Sydney This paper examines the evolution of enterprise bargaining in the automotive assembly industry in Australia since the early 1990s. Although there has been a general trend towards greater variation between the four companies in the vehicle assembly s...

In today’s competitive market, those producers who can quickly adapt themselves todiverse demands of customers are successful. Therefore, in order to satisfy these demands of market, Mixed-model assembly line (MMAL) has an increasing growth in industry. A mixed-model assembly line (MMAL) is a type of production line in which varieties of products with common base characteristics are assembled o...

Changeability is mandatory for top class automotive industry to cope with new product development paradigms and demanding market. Hybrid Reconfigurable Assembly Systems (H-RMSs) address a customized flexibility on product families, given by coexistence or cooperation of human workers and robots. Key-issues for the effective design of harmonized hybrid assembly systems are: modularity; integrabi...

Assembly line balancing problems (ALBP) consist of distributing the total workload for manufacturing any unit of the products to be assembled among the work stations along a manufacturing line as used in the automotive or the electronics industries. Usually, it is assumed that the production process is fixed, i.e., has been determined in a preceding planning step. However, this sequential plann...

In the 21st century, Manufacturers will increasingly face frequent and unpredictable market changes. These changes include the frequent introduction of new products, increased demand for new products and new process technologies. To produce variety of product and suit to new processes automated/semi automated machine tools and fixture are required. In this paper present a fixture design for aut...

Simulation technology is the most popular and powerful tool for analyzing complex system such as automotive manufacturing system. However, sufficient

Integrated PC-and EtherCAT-based solution for special-purpose machine used in the automotive industry Vehicle steering column shafts are very sensitive, yet important, components of automotive steering systems. Accordingly, high demands are placed on the production of these products. LCA Automation AG specializes in these types of assembly plants, and values the openness and flexibility of PC-b...