Robotic Welding Line Replacement

Aka, Continuous Flow Project Christopher Urbane, CSCP, LSSGB

Senior Industrial Engineer, Body in White

President of APICS Roanoke

President, APICS Roanoke Chapter

ChrisUrbane@gmail.com

My Background… Art school – School of Visual Arts

Printing Ink Vermont Technical College

PCBA Organic Textiles Steel Fabrication

Semi Conductor Fab Manufacturing Industrial Power Supplies Potato Farming & Packing Integration and Controls

Automotive

Positions Held… Ink Technician

Production Manager Inventory Manager

Production Scheduler Operations Consultant

LEAN Advisor

Education… LSSGB from Dartmouth College

CSCP from APICS MOST Certified

MSEM from Clarkson

BIW 2 = Only L1 & L3

BIW 1 = Only L1, L4, L5

3 Robots

9 Robots

BIW 2 8 Robots

MOST

Maynard Operations Sequence Technique

PMTS - Predetermined Motion Time Sequence Sets standard time for workers to perform tasks

Used to set labor/line rates for work cells. TMU - Time Measurement Units = .036/second

History of Time Studies• Time Study was Invented by Frederick Taylor

• Frank Gilbreth, father of motion studies.

• Mr. Gilbreths tool was a camera.

Hand-written time study data.

TOOLS

StandardsPro - Engineered standards development tool to create, maintain, retrieve and analyze time standards.

LeanLine Software - Design the flow of work through a process to achieve maximum throughput with minimal waste relative to the

resources expended.