SOLVING THE SEQUENCED PART DELIVERY (SPD) PROBLEM
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Executive Summary
Sequenced Part Delivery (SPD) allows automotive manufacturers to outsource whole sections of their assembly process essentially creating a ‘factory without borders’. Key to this method of outsourcing is absolute synchronization of the delivery of the outsourced part to the automotive assembly line.
Intier Seating has solved this problem of highly reliable process synchronization using industrial RFID. The ability of industrial RFID to reduce identification errors on automated lines to nearly zero as well as record test and assembly data in process is key to Inlier’s solution to their SPD supporting Ford’s assembly line for Ford’s new Edge models.
