The impact of visualizing operational deviations on overall quality in assembly lines
Paper in proceeding, 2022

A framework for data collection and visualization of operational deviation at a Volvo truck manufacturing plant implementing Volvo Group's production system, Volvo Production System (VPS), is presented. This includes visualisation of daily quality performance indicators to support decision making and improvement actions at the shop floor team level. The approach is evaluated in a qualitatively study using a survey instrument to collect responses from managers and team leaders, which acted as input for the actual use of the data and as validation of the framework. The results from this evaluation show that potentially operational deviations can be reduced, impacting positively quality performance indicators such as first-time through (FTT). This paper also provides a brief description of the VPS in connection with data analytics and visualization.

Quality performance

Operational deviations

Volvo Production System

Author

Ebly Sanchez

Volvo Group

Axel Joelsson

Volvo Group

Matthias Andersson Baumgartner

Volvo Group

Knut Åkesson

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Systems and control

Procedia CIRP

22128271 (eISSN)

Vol. 107 46-52

55th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, CIRP CMS 2022
Lugano, Switzerland,

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Environmental Management

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1016/j.procir.2022.04.008

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