Design of a Process Control System for Automotive Assembly Process

A PROBLEM SOLVING METHODOLOGY to analyze an integrated multistage production process is described in this paper.

The methodology segregates each stage into an independent entity thereby simplifying the analysis to determine the root cause of an output quality problem.

This methodology is applied to the automobile body sealing process. The application shows how sealing effectiveness can be traced to the dimensional quality of parts & controls exercised in the assembly process.