NedCar’s “final assembly” line with automatic islands for four car types
Toshinori Nakahara
(Co‐operate Manager in the Production Engineering Final Assembly Department at NedCar, The Netherlands.)
Arie Kikkert
(Project Manager in the Production Engineering Department at NedCar, The Netherlands)
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Abstract
Reports on the development of a partly automated final assembly line at NedCar, engineered with the main objectives being: four car types in one line in any combination; higher degree of automation and less man dependent; high productivity with minimal balance losses; highly reliable quality level. Basic principles are: continuously stable running conveyor line; and several fully automated “auto islands”.
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Citation
Nakahara, T. and Kikkert, A. (1998), "NedCar’s “final assembly” line with automatic islands for four car types", Assembly Automation, Vol. 18 No. 2, pp. 124-128. https://doi.org/10.1108/01445159810211729
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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