{"id":11972,"date":"2019-05-07T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisteplant.com\/manufacturing-to-order-mto-cars-parts\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T16:17:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:17:24","slug":"manufacturing-to-order-mto-cars-parts","status":"publish","type":"articulos_y_libros","link":"https:\/\/sisteplant.com\/en\/articulos_y_libros\/manufacturing-to-order-mto-cars-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing to order (MTO) cars & parts?"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Author:\u00a0 Javier Borda Elejabarrieta.<\/strong> Prof. Dr. Ing., President of Sisteplant.<\/p>\n

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Sure, we are actually doing so. Question is at which rate?<\/p>\n

ATO (assembly to order) combination of different standard parts in the final stages is the state in the automotive industry, the most advanced sector in manufacturing, so cloned elsewhere.<\/p>\n

But the long assembly lines conceived for big runs restrain other conceptions that technology as 3Dp opens.<\/p>\n

What if doing it by cells, or by combination of these with virtual-reconfigurable flow lines? Cells with high-integrated inputs from other cells or suppliers.<\/p>\n

Factories would change from their roots, and had to be rebuilt from scratch, but modular manufacturing MTO-cells opens path for:<\/p>\n