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Planning for Final Assembly

Planning for Final Assembly A LONG chain of processes is involved in the gradual building up and combining of all the innumerable parts that go to make the complete aeroplane. It starts with the gathering together of the individual parts to form subcomponents, which are then joined in subassemblies to be brought together to form main components, which are at last collected at the finalassembly line to be merged into one wholethe aeroplane. Delay at any one of these intermediate stages will cause a holdup all the way back, but most serious of all is a bottleneck at the finalassembly line. It is of the greatest importance that the time to be occupied at each of the assembly stages should be carefully planned, estimated and checked, but however smooth a flow may be provided the whole effort will be wasted if main component assemblies are to pile up waiting for space in the anal assembly shop. The more reliance that is placed, in the modern manner, on subcontractors and outside firms for production of parts, subcomponents, subassemblies and, in some astances, main components, the more serious the consequences of his final holdup. It is a frequent cause of bewilderment to the mind to hear of men employed at the works of subcontractors ing stood off at a time when clearly the maximum possible output of completed machines is desirable. This is, of course, due ry frequently to congestion at some later stage in the process of sembling, and the later the stage at which this occurs the more widespread will be the resulting confusion and delay. If there is a stoppage in the flow along the finalassembly line it may be that a considerable number of firms are affected and forced temporarily to stop production until the stoppage is cleared. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology Emerald Publishing

Planning for Final Assembly

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology , Volume 12 (3): 2 – Mar 1, 1940
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Emerald Publishing
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0002-2667
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10.1108/eb030615
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A LONG chain of processes is involved in the gradual building up and combining of all the innumerable parts that go to make the complete aeroplane. It starts with the gathering together of the individual parts to form subcomponents, which are then joined in subassemblies to be brought together to form main components, which are at last collected at the finalassembly line to be merged into one wholethe aeroplane. Delay at any one of these intermediate stages will cause a holdup all the way back, but most serious of all is a bottleneck at the finalassembly line. It is of the greatest importance that the time to be occupied at each of the assembly stages should be carefully planned, estimated and checked, but however smooth a flow may be provided the whole effort will be wasted if main component assemblies are to pile up waiting for space in the anal assembly shop. The more reliance that is placed, in the modern manner, on subcontractors and outside firms for production of parts, subcomponents, subassemblies and, in some astances, main components, the more serious the consequences of his final holdup. It is a frequent cause of bewilderment to the mind to hear of men employed at the works of subcontractors ing stood off at a time when clearly the maximum possible output of completed machines is desirable. This is, of course, due ry frequently to congestion at some later stage in the process of sembling, and the later the stage at which this occurs the more widespread will be the resulting confusion and delay. If there is a stoppage in the flow along the finalassembly line it may be that a considerable number of firms are affected and forced temporarily to stop production until the stoppage is cleared.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology – Emerald Publishing

Published: Mar 1, 1940

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