Procurement of Reconfigurable Assembly System a Justification for Effective Production Ramp-up Planning

AbstractProduction ramp up is important activity in manufacturing through which the capacity to produce necessary product variety, size type, model, quantity, quality and feature is achieved. By introducing rapid changes in the product at manufacturing system levels value for customers is created to meet target market, free market economy is the only solution to meet the changing dynamics of the market and keeping a competitive edge in the market for staying in business. In this context, System dynamic has been used to address the volume and capacity yield issues. Other core issues of production systems is automated and manual assembly units in order to manage an effective and fast production ramp-up to respond rapidly to the niche market changes in the demand cycles. This paper contributes and attempts to describe the dynamic behavior patterns involved in managing the aforesaid challenges due to assembly by means of manual and automated assembly processes. Besides, this research concludes that procurement of reconfigurable manufacturing are essential for having effective and fast production