Project Description

Our team had the privaledge to work together with the logistic department of Daimler AG. The focus: a tugger train planning for a new assembly line to be installed in a Stuttgart factory. The beginning of the project met us with a large variety of factors to be considered:

• determining the items to be supplied
• a surface of more than 22.000 square meters
• more than 285 ton and 950 cubic meters of goods to be handled per day with multiple constraints

Additionally, we had to consider the following for planning:

• fix dimensions of the buffer and a u-point turn
• varying corridors widths and one-way corridors
• different unit carriers
• customized frames
• pre-defined loading areas

Success

Implementing a propriatory method developed by IntechLog, the tugger train planning (including stops, routes, time schedule and delay analysis) and all constraints was developed. Significant improvements were also found by analyzing the up-hill process of loading, especially considering the pre-loading and loading areas of the main warehouse (aka Supermarket). Advice and recommendations were also provided concerning the foreseen ramp-up process, bringing the assembly line to its full capacity and concerning the IT requirements for managing the kanban re-ordering process.

Project Details

Skill needed

Category

Planning, Process Analysis, Services

Project Website

Daimler AG - Tugger Train Planning