Table 1.
Summary of key differences between LMHV and HMLV manufacturing.
Fig 1.
Process flow for (4) unrelated components in a HMLV manufacturing environment.
Fig 2.
Shaft used for experimentation of processing method adaptations for process level standardization.
Fig 3.
Process flow for cellular manufacturing intervention.
Fig 4.
Process flow for single machine processing.
Table 2.
Variables measured to calculate the performance metrics.
Fig 5.
Value stream map of baseline processing with machines working separately in mixed value streams (all values in hours).
Table 3.
Summary of measurements for each processing method used.
Fig 6.
Value stream map of cellular workflow processing with machines working as a single work cell (all values in hours).
Fig 7.
Value stream map of single machine processing (all values in hours).
Table 4.
Calculated metrics for the 3 processing methods for the component.