Chalmers Conferences, The 6th Swedish Production Symposium

CREATING STRATEGIES FOR GLOBAL ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS – CURRENT STATE ANALYSIS
Åsa Fast- Berglund, Magnus Åkerman, Sandra Mattsson, Pierre Johansson, Anna Malm, Anna Perenstål Brenden

Last modified: 2014-11-24

Abstract


This paper present result from three global companies regarding strategies for creating global instructions, the studies are from a current state perspective. The result is based from a survey with 65 respondents. The designers are responsible for instructions and are from two different areas; assembly and service market. Furthermore a workshop has been arranged were two of three companies participated. Three main issues towards formulating a strategy will be discussed; (1) Information carrier; the results reveal that the most common information carrier for instructions are, Paper, Personal meetings and Desktops. (2) Who is responsible for quality assurance, most answers were production engineers. (3) Are there any standards concerning instruction at your company today? The respondents answered yes or under development in over 80 % of the cases on the question; if it exist any standards today.


Keywords


Global, Instructions, Strategies, Assembly, Service and after market