Title: Computer Simulation Model for the Stator Subassembly of an Electronic Hydraulic Power Steering Syste
1Computer Simulation Model for the Stator
Subassembly of an Electronic Hydraulic Power
Steering System
Second Update October 30, 2001
- Hugo Sanchez
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- Juan Soto Carlos Terrazas
2Project Goal
3Project Goal
Operations Cost Labor Raw Material Currency
4Project Goal
EHPS
5Project Goal
6Objective
Make the transfer of the production line from
London to El Paso feasible through computer
simulation of its critical subassembly and the
factors affecting it.
7Agenda
- Project Status
- Introduction
- Project Summary
- Problems Encountered
- Conclusions
- Future Work
- Open Forum
8Project Status
- Behind schedule
- Data collection
- On schedule
- Tasks were moved to meet timelines
9Project Status
10Background
DANA Automotive components manufacturer. Electron
ic Hydraulic Power Steering System
(EHPS). Prototypes produced in England. El Paso
Facility responsible for transition from
prototypes to mass production.
11Introduction
Senior Design Team Approach
12Project Summary
- Meeting with DANA
- Time Evaluation
- Scope of the Project
- Resources available
13Project Summary
- Process
- Potential Failure
- Potential Effect
- Severance
- Type of Failure
- Potential Cause
- Occurrence
- Detection
Failure Analysis
14Project Summary
The Subassembly was divided into five
subassemblies.
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20Project Summary
- Factors affecting Subassembly
- Production Forecast
- Learning curves
- Space constraints
- Machine Characteristics
- Scrap Rates
21Conclusions
- Even though the data collection was delayed the
project is still expected to be completed on
schedule. - More factors affecting the subassembly are
expected to be added to the simulation. -
22Problems Encountered
Access to data was not available. Access to the
prototype was not available. Promised videos was
not delivered
23Future Work
- Next Update
- Time Study
- Arena Modeling
- Constrains Implementation
- Final Report
- Arena Model Simulation
- Results and Recommendations
24Open Forum