TY - GEN
T1 - Pilot to Full-Scale Production
T2 - A Battery Module Assembly Case Study
AU - Chinnathai, Malarvizhi Kaniappan
AU - Alkan, Bugra
AU - Vera, Daniel
AU - Harrison, Robert
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Electric vehicles are currently on the rise due to environmental and legal concerns. Furthermore, improvements made in battery assembly steadily boosts the efficiency of electric vehicles. A well-prevalent method to overcome the uncertainties that emerge from the ever-changing battery technology, is to assemble products using pilot production lines. However, literature pertaining to the scale-up of pilot production lines for full scale production is scarce. Therefore, in this paper, potential scale-up scenarios for battery module assembly line are proposed in a discrete event simulation software and results are compared. Furthermore, the benefits of the proposed method are discussed with a test case.
AB - Electric vehicles are currently on the rise due to environmental and legal concerns. Furthermore, improvements made in battery assembly steadily boosts the efficiency of electric vehicles. A well-prevalent method to overcome the uncertainties that emerge from the ever-changing battery technology, is to assemble products using pilot production lines. However, literature pertaining to the scale-up of pilot production lines for full scale production is scarce. Therefore, in this paper, potential scale-up scenarios for battery module assembly line are proposed in a discrete event simulation software and results are compared. Furthermore, the benefits of the proposed method are discussed with a test case.
U2 - 10.1016/j.procir.2018.03.194
DO - 10.1016/j.procir.2018.03.194
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - 51st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems
ER -