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Process Improvement of Taping for an Assembly Electrical Wiring Harness

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Industrial Engineering and Applications – Europe (ICIEA-EU 2024)

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Abstract

The production of automotive wire harnesses now requires a significant amount of manual labor. Even so, a greater level of automation is required due to present and future application demands such as the miniaturization of electronic components, the monitoring of process parameters, the growing need for paperwork for processes, and the rise in payments. Technology helps manufacturing organizations in the most important aspects of the design-to-manufacturing process. This is relevant to the wire harness sector, which is a crucial part of industrial automotive manufacturing. The automotive wiring harness suppliers designed Computer-Aided Design technologies (CAD) to support wire harness assembly operations and design work. Even with the application of these techniques, engineers will still have to do trial-and-error work to find effective assembly techniques. This study presents a new approach to optimize the wire harness assembly procedures without focusing on trial and error or the experience of experienced engineers to develop operational assembly processes. The most crucial and challenging step in the assembly process sequence is taping routed cables. The taping process’s complexity is mostly determined by how the jig is set up on the workstation and the tape method. As a result, the suggested technique models and optimizes the tape direction and jig arrangement.

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    Ikhlef Jebbor, Youssef Raouf & Hanaa Hachimi

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Jebbor, I., Raouf, Y., Benmamoun, Z., Hachimi, H. (2024). Process Improvement of Taping for an Assembly Electrical Wiring Harness. In: Sheu, SH. (eds) Industrial Engineering and Applications – Europe. ICIEA-EU 2024. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 507. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58113-7_4

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