Quality engineering tools for assembly and small batches manufacturing

Informations projet

QUETA

N° de convention de subvention: 22367

Projet clôturé

Date de début 24 Juin 1996

Date de fin 23 Juin 1999

Financé au titre de

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998

Coût total € 3 682 000,00

Contribution de l’UE € 2 010 000,00

Coordonné par

Saab Ab
Sweden

Résultats exploitables

Quality engineering for assembly and small batch manufacturing

The QUETA project involves the development of information technology (IT)-based tools for total quality management (TQM) in flexible manufacturing and complex assembly with small batches for the automotive and aerospace industry. This includes the identification of critical components and processes and the definition of actions to improve the components and processes. The project includes 5 main work packages: System Analysis, System Specification, Detailed Design, Implementation and Field-Testing. The initial results for System Analysis include: overview of existing methods and tools ; analysis of the actual practice in users' companies; specification of users' requirements (top-level requirements) on all three tools to be developed; definition of possible approaches to fulfil the users' requirements; specification of user requirements on the interfaces and standards; definition of concepts of demonstrators. The system analysis serves as the basis for defining the requirements of users in the aerospace and the automotive industry with respect to. the new QUETA tools. The know-how established and the IT tools being developed will be directly transferred to different industrial sectors like the automotive industry, ship-building, space-industry and especially within the small and medium sized enterprise (SME) community. The overall system specification and detailed design of its components can be seen as a truly reusable result, in association with the standardization effort outcome which is of equal importance. Particularly interesting, the specification and design modularity that the project has been able to achieve permits easy identification of system parts and their individual exploitation. The QUETA project will enable the research partners to collect additional experience and develop IT tools in the very promising field of bringing TQM concepts into industrial practice.