Automotive Industry Trends
Automotive manufacturers are under great pressure conduct effective assembly line improvement. Today’s automotive manufacturing sector is a volatile place to do business, with increasing production complexity and raw material prices leading to rising production costs.
These external pressures are pushing leading automotive manufacturers to look beyond lean manufacturing and seek new innovative process improvement and assembly line improvement technologies.
Assembly Line Simulation Solutions
Automotive manufacturers recognize the importance of a flexible assembly line being able to quickly and accurately predict how outside drivers will effect assembly line production. Visual8 have worked with some of the largest automotive manufacturers in the industry (such as Toyota and GM), to develop an array of assembly line simulation solutions. Our assembly line simulation tools are currently assisting automotive manufacturers across sectors to better predict and react to the effects of market fluctuations, better control inventory levels, improve supply chain integration, and ultimately carry out effective assembly line improvement.
Assembly line simulation provides many benefits other technologies simply cannot offer. The ability to accurately model each individual process in an assembly line provides the end user with the ability to carryout what-if analysis on an exact replica of the assembly line, quickly identifying bottlenecks and visualizing opportunities for assembly line improvement. The same assembly line simulation can then be used for facility planning, applying proposed assembly line changes to the simulation model and analyzing their effects on production.
Visual8 assembly line simulation tools can provide solutions to a number of assembly line improvement projects:
- Easily identify and eliminate bottlenecks in both production and your supply chain
- Test planning and facility layouts in a risk free environment before implementation
- Predict the effects of unplanned events such as breakdowns, price fluctuations, and shifts in customer demand
- Better control inventory levels
- Reduce lead times
- Lower operating costs
Learn more about how our Automotive Manufacturing clients are benefiting from Visual8 assembly line simulation solutions.
