Improving productivity by reducing cycle time through new fixture design and inspection method

Abstract

In this aggressive global the manufactures need to deliver their product in a shorter term. To fulfill the customers, the manufacture must reduce the unnecessary process time and the errors. In this paper, the clutch operating lever production line in an automobile industry was analysed. The bottleneck operation was found in a fixture design and during the inspection process. A new fixture and an inspection gauge are designed to reduce the setup and inspection time the clutch production. The overall loading and set up change over time is reduced by the newly designed fixture which reduces the end-line defects and saves time and effort. The productivity is highly increased by 55% by the newly designed fixture and the inspection rate is boosted by 80% and the rejection rate is reduced by 83% which is proven by the comparison to older methods.