| Author | Zay Yar Myint |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Engineering in
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | In A tier 1 automotive steering supplier company from Thailand is one of the leading steering manufacturing company for variety of automobile brands. They produce tens of thousands of steering columns per month for different models of automobile from different brands. The company’s manufacturing facility exists in Samut Prakan district, Bangkok, Thailand. The production process consists of 4 sections, manufacturing, subassembly, final assembly and warehouse. Among these, the final assembly line and the warehouse bear the majority of the inventory cost. In order to reduce the tied up inventory cost in the factory, it needs to find out the optimal inventory set up in the warehouse which can also supply the monthly demand without any delivery shortage. This thesis presents a case study on an assembly line optimization problem in an existing assembly section of a Power Steering Column production line for Honda Fit. The rationale of this project is to build the model of current system, to simulate the entire process of the final assembly line, analyse the resultant inventory and delivery status of current inventory setup and find out an optimised inventory setup for the minimal inventory cost with minimal delivery shortage. The simulation is done by using Tecnomatix Plant Simulation. All the data needed for the line balancing analysis are collected. This data gathered is then simulated in Tecnomatix Plant Simulation. |
| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Industrial Systems Engineering (DISE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Microelectronics (ME) |
| Chairperson(s) | Bohez, Erik L. J.;Huynh Trung Luong; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Than Lin;Mongkol Ekpanyapong ; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | AIT Fellowship; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) -- Asian Institute of Technology, 2017 |