Impact of ICT on Car Production.

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IMPACT OF ICT ON CAR PRODUCTION

Contents

CONTENTS 2

CAR PRODUCTION IN THE PAST 3

CAR PRODUCTION AS IT IS NOW 4

PRODUCTION AND ASSEMBLY 4

EMPLOYEES 6

MANUFACTURERS 6

Car Production In The Past

Traditionally, there would be a group of workers who would assemble cars. Skilled manual workers operated lathes and cutting tools, this would need lots of training and experience. The workers needed the ability to adapt to changes in task specifications. However unskilled and partly-skilled workers had to sort out and assemble these pieces by hand.

Engineers who designed the cars had to work with paper and drawing equipment, producing one or two dimensional diagrams and plans. However these plans often had to be redrawn from scratch if testing had failed. Engineering designers who worked in teams had to work simultaneously on one paper drawing or make amendments on photocopies. To test new products they built scale models or prototypes. These engineers were then required to breakdown designs into parts, estimate raw materials required and write working instructions for production line workers.

Car Production As It Is Now

Now unskilled or semi-skilled operatives oversee machine tools, programmed to automatically cut predetermined patterns and shapes. The job remains the same for the worker regardless of changing tasks carried out by the machine tools. The sorting and assembly of parts is now often carried out by computer controlled robots.
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Programmed machine tools and robots produce work of a uniform quality and therefore only random quality testing is carried out. Some FMS systems incorporate their own quality control. These are the dramatic changes that have occurred in the roles of the manual workers.

Production and Assembly

The introduction of computers to the production line has allowed the construction and assembly of parts to become increasingly automated. The punched paper tape used in numerical control has been replaced by computer programs controlling the work of machine tools (CNC), giving a greater accuracy and consistency of production of ...

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