Comparison of designed cellular manufacturing system and current manufacturing system: An application for ford Otosan factory transmission manufacturing department

Companies try to gain advantage in competition by manufacturingproducts that have low unit cost and high quality, in hightened competitionenviroment. Manufacturing companies can take the adventage of competitionby developing their internal mechanism and rearranging their equipments.Parts are transported from one department to another for differentoperations in companies in which machines are gathered into groups accordingto their functions. In these companies, most of time is spent for waiting,trasportation and setup. It?s seen from the applications in industry that the ideaof group technology is used for the purpose of increasing the productivity.Cellular manufacturing is an application of group technology principles toproduction. The objective of cellular manufacturing is to achieve efficiences inproduction in other words to gain more outputs with less time, less cost andbeter quality by exploiting similarities amongst the parts. This study determinesthe advantages of cellular manufacturing system for Ford Otosan FactoryTransmission Department that produces transmission parts and has processlayout, by constructing this system in there. The proposals subject to the dutiesof the things that the company must do to provide these advantages are given.