Martin Tschernach, Lean Production Manager, Traktionssysteme Austria GmbH
Successful and efficient MTM implementation in the production of traction drives for rail and road commercial vehicles
Due to the strong global development of electromobility, combined with the ever-increasing shortage of skilled workers, companies in this business field must react skillfully and sustainably. For this reason, Traktionssysteme Austria introduced a clocked MTM target assembly line in the final assembly area, among other things, in order to reduce throughput times and thus increase output in the same area. The difficulty for a company that mainly operates in the project business lies in the high variance and large differences in the sizes of the individual products. The particular challenge was to find a product family that would ensure consistently high capacity utilization of the line and also have an assembly method that could be combined.