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Applying Theory of Constraints to a Complex Manufacturing Process
Published in Kaushik Kumar, Divya Zindani, J. Paulo Davim, Digital Manufacturing and Assembly Systems in Industry 4.0, 2019
Vishal Naranje, Srinivas Sarkar
In the manufacturing industry, “full kitting” refers to the process of gathering all the components, parts, and tools required for the production of a particular assembly or product. Commonly, the management working in conjunction with the production team will define a kit of parts for each product manufactured at the setup. When the production process for any product commences, the specific set of components and parts for that product will be loaded onto a trolley and placed at the assembly station. The production team will ensure that there is no lack of stock for any component by replenishing it in a timely manner.
Demountable and reusable construction system for steel-concrete composite structures
Published in Airong Chen, Xin Ruan, Dan M. Frangopol, Life-Cycle Civil Engineering: Innovation, Theory and Practice, 2021
Kit-of-parts architecture refers to the application of a set of prefabricated and standardised elements that are easy to manufacture and to assemble with the help of standardised connections. The elements are designed in a systematic way such that, a wide variety of different configurations are possible. Commonly known examples are the LEGO and the MECCANO system. In the frame of the research project REDUCE, a modular system was developed that includes beams, columns and deck elements. In this system, the geometry of all elements respects the planning grid that is based on a basic module size.
Platforming for industrialized building: a comparative case study of digitally-enabled product platforms
Published in Building Research & Information, 2023
To group modules in a library in deriving future products, a kit of parts or product library is defined as a collection of discrete building modules that are pre-engineered and designed for manufacturing and assembly in a variety of ways as a finished building (Gibb, 1999; Gibb, 2001; Howe et al., 1999; Zhao et al., 2018). With a digitally-enabled kit of parts, modules (or components) can be engineered and defined before design and manufacturing pre-engineered using digital delivery (e.g. Cao et al., 2021; Gan, 2022b). A module is designed and manufactured, ready for onsite assembly with predefined interfaces, at varying prefabrication levels (Gibb & Pendlebury, 2006; Gosling et al., 2016; Peltokorpi et al., 2018). Different combinations of modules cover structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing and other services. For example, structural modules can be composed of structural components, made of steel, reinforced concrete, timber, or other composite materials (Gosling et al., 2016).
Kitting optimisation in Just-in-Time mixed-model assembly lines: assigning parts to pickers in a hybrid robot–operator kitting system
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2018
Mohamed El Amine Boudella, Evren Sahin, Yves Dallery
Parts feeding in Just-In-Time (JIT) mixed-model assembly lines is a challenging operation due to the variety of components needed by each end product (EP) assembled on the line. Among line feeding modes studied in the literature (e.g. line stocking, JIT delivery, sequencing and kitting), sequencing and kitting seem to be the most frequently used modes (especially in the automotive and electronics industry) because they reduce congestion at the border of line (BoL) (see Hua and Johnson 2010). Indeed, in line stocking, all parts needed at a workstation are stored at the BoL, which could rapidly become cumbersome when stock keeping unit (SKU) diversity is high, i.e. components have several variants. Kitting consists in preparing, for each EP in the production sequence, a collection or a ‘kit’ of parts ready for use by assembly operators. Thus, a ‘travelling kit’ is a kit associated with an EP and moves with it to feed several workstations, while a ‘stationary kit’ holds parts needed for several EPs and is used by a given workstation until depletion. Parts that form a kit are physically placed together in one or more compartmented containers referred to as ‘kitting boxes’.