Pilot to Full-Scale Production: A Battery Module Assembly Case Study

Malarvizhi Kaniappan Chinnathai; Bugra Alkan; Daniel Vera; Robert Harrison

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2018.03.194

Pilot to Full-Scale Production: A Battery Module Assembly Case Study

Malarvizhi Kaniappan Chinnathai
, Bugra Alkan
, Daniel Vera
, Robert Harrison

Computer Science

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	51st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2018.03.194
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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