Ford assembly plant adaptation for new model exhaust point of F/T

Abstract

[EN] The project described in this document briefly began during my scholarship period at FORD Almussafes Assembly Plant and continue to be fully developed as I got hired as part of the VOME Facilities team (Vehicle Operations Manufacturing Engineering). The role of this department (dedicated exclusively to the launch of new models) is to, based on the technical info received by the Manufacturing team on how the vehicle logical assembly order should be, study how to adapt the current plant status in order to be able to perform the new model required operations, while at the same time not affecting the current production models. This project in particular, deals with changes required on plant in order to adapt it for a new model exhaust assembly. This process begins with a long and deep analysis of the possible solutions, involving all the related plant departments with their own requirements based of their current plant knowledge and the lessons learned from previous launches. Always trying to reach a compromise between providing the best technical solutions for the scope of works, without getting far away from the project¿s budget. Based on these previous in-depth studies, analysis and meetings; the way of implementing the agreed solution through suppliers, is to create a technical specification, a document that contains all the technical details and some other formal aspects of the project. This document will become the grounding of the whole project`s implementation and it is the final objective of this TFM.