What this means is that although cars, trucks and minivans will all look different, there is a common approach when it comes to putting parts to-gether. If there are parts A, B, C, D, then there is an agreement that all platforms will se-quence those parts in the same manner, whether that's A, B, C, D or D, C, B, A or some other permutation. Because they are settling on that, this makes developing the processes more straightforward. Shown here are pre-production operations at Windsor Assembly of the RS, or model year 2001 minivan. They've been building minivans in Windsor since 1983.
Flexibility means reusability.
In order to get fast while achieving flexibility, it is likely that there is a bigger investment up front so that the benefits will be realized for a longer period of time. When the vehicle in question is a hot-selling model, loss avoidance is financially critical. When plants supplying popular products go down for several weeks to change to a successor product from the successful one, the profits of the corporation takes a hit due to the lack of availability of the product. All Rights Reserved.