Well, it's in DaimlerChrysler's vocabulary just not in the U.S. Modular production is going ahead at full speed in Brazil, where parts supplier Dana Corp. is pioneering manufacturing techniques alongside a Chrysler pickup truck factory.
Look for more modular production with preassembled components like doors, dashboards, seats and suspension units.
Also, a modular production system can be controlled remotely.
And in fact we built our production line from the ground up, so it's a completely modular production line," he says.
This paper describes a system architecture modular production plants in the discrete, loosely connected flow production.
It includes modular production lines and a non-modular backbone facility that provides energy and utility supply.
Based on these roundabout and modular production activities, enterprises can combine the module components produced by mass production and then assemble them into customized products or services.
The modular production system of Festo is used within a new competence-oriented didactic concept.
A modular production plant consists of predefined apparatuses with a fixed design, called equipment modules.
Thus flexible, modular production systems that can be adapted to individual use-cases are necessary.
