The Hyundai Translead’s H Line

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Case Study- Report and Presentation FACULTY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA (UTeM) Intelligent Manufacturing MMFS 5013 SEMESTER II SESI 2012/2013 Student received from lecturer: Deadline/Due Date/Submission to lecturer: 6 Mar 2013 29 May 2013 Instructions Manual – Individual Task. a. Please read the questions carefully. Individual work. b. Answer all questions in A4 paper by single and/or appropriate spacing with typed neatly. c. Provide your formal report on the issues regarding the intelligent manufacturing via automation tools. Please cite all your references otherwise plagiarism is noted and your report’s mark will be downgraded. Intelligent Manufacturing Case Study (Report 20% + Presentation 5%) Firing the robots When thinking about how automotive manufacturers automate production, robots may be one of the first things that come to mind with regards to intelligent manufacturing. Hyundai Translead has employed robots in the past. But management fired its robots and opted for other forms of non-intelligent tool instead when equipping the H line. “A lot of the technology we use on the H line is the same as what we have been using,” Shidler says. “But we are not using any robots. We bought two of them in 2001, but the technology then was changing so fast that they were out of date before they paid for themselves. With the H line, we have more intelligent than ever before, but we are doing it without robots. Instead, the tooling we have has been available for years. We have taken ideas from our Korean operations and put them into play. It has worked for them, and now it is working for us. Some of the equipment we have in this plant is available to us only because we are part of Hyundai.” Of course, not everything that the company uses to produce cars is feasible for use in trailer manufacturing. “Hyundai produces

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