Lay-out and process improvement in commercial vehicle seat manufacturing

In this study, the actions of the automotive seat manufacturer company within the framework of various constraints in order to meet the demand for capacity increase from 2015 to 2020, within the scope of university-industry cooperation, were examined. It is an applied project work aimed at solving the problem. Literature equivalents of basic concepts such as production, product complexity, factory layout, assembly lines, line balancing and ergonomics were examined and related to the subjective application project topic. After analyzing the customer expectation, the working steps are laid out step by step in a way to respond to it. These studies include factory layout improvements, process optimizations, new investments, industry 4.0 applications, ergonomics improvements, work order changes and have been put into practice to meet the relevant capacity demand. In the research, the mathematical modeling difficulty of the operational structure that will respond to the increase in capacity and product variety has been revealed within the framework of sector-specific constraints. It has been emphasized that the difficulty of modeling is due to the multiplicity and variability of the parameters affecting the problem under consideration. Because of this difficulty, the importance of industry specific solutions based on experience and intuition has been emphasized