CHAPTER 15Preventing picking errors
Part confusion in assembly is theprimary cause of defects in manufacturing today, and the magnitude of this problem grows as manufacturers implement more and more mixed-flow assembly lines. Many low-technology solutions are available toprevent, make less likely, or quickly detect picking errors, but these techniques are not massively applied. There are also high-technology solutions developedforwarehouse distribution applications that can be applied on assembly lines. Although they arefarshortoffull automation, they are orders of magnitude cheaper.
Working ourway backwards from the assembly station to the supplier, we examine means of preventing or reducing the likelihood of errors at eachpointwhere they ...
