Chalmers Conferences, The 6th Swedish Production Symposium

GRINDING OR SHAVING – ECONOMIC DECISION SUPPORT IN THE PRODUCTION OF GEARS
Carin Andersson, Jan-Eric Ståhl

Last modified: 2014-11-24

Abstract


This paper describes a case study at an automotive company with the purpose of developing an economically based decision support tool, for strategic decision about whether to chose grinding or shaving as a finishing method in gear manufacturing. In the study different cost models are compared regarding input parameters in alignment with the required input data required to make a decision. With the performance driven cost model used during the analysis, shaving was shown to be the most cost efficient finishing method.


Keywords


cost analysis, performance, gear manufacturing

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