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- Title
Improving Car Body Production at PSA Peugeot Citroën.
- Authors
Patchong, Alain; Lemoine, Thierry; Kern, Gilles
- Abstract
In 1998, following a change in top management, the new CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën decided to adopt a triple-axis strategy of growth, innovation, and profitability and set an ambitious target for each. To meet these objectives, NA decided to focus on the car-body shops, which were the bottlenecks of its plants. An R&D team conducted a project to support car-body production for NA Peugeot Citroën. PSA manufactures over 75 percent of its cars on lines designed and continually improved with the team's new analytic operations research toots. These OR tools, which combine simulation and Markov-chain models of series-parallel systems, have improved throughput with minimal capital investment and no compromise in quality-contributing US $130 million to the bottom line in 2001 alone. The impact of this project went beyond the boundaries of ISA as its suppliers acquired the tools without being requested to do so.
- Subjects
PSA Peugeot Citroen SA; AUTOMOBILE factories; CHIEF executive officers; PRODUCTION scheduling; SYSTEMS theory; CAPITAL budget; INDUSTRIAL engineering; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Interfaces, 2003, Vol 33, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
0092-2102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/inte.33.1.36.12723