Objectives

• Contribute with knowledge to the understanding of the process of designing flexible assembly systems.
• Characterize flexible assembly systems and analyse how the assembly system design process is affected by the demand of flexibility and how it is considered.

Current status

• A literature review about assembly system design and flexibility is in progress.
• A descriptive study of the current assembly system in regard of flexibility as well as a case study regarding flexibility definitions, needs, enablers and challenges has been done.
• Participation in an on-going industrial project where an assembly system setup that can handle different product variants and volume is analyzed.
• A plan and design of future research studies is under development.  

 

Planned activities

Q3,Q4 2013: Literature study and development of                                             case studies in order to characterize flexibility in                                         assembly systems.
 

Supervisors
Main supervisor: Mats Jackson, MDH/Volvo CE
Assistant supervisor: Jessica Bruch, MDH
Industrial supervisor: Hans Wikstrand, Volvo CE

Contact
Natalia Svensson Harari
E-mail: natalia.svensson.harari@volvo.com

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