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Initial situation
and objective
In light of dramatic changes in the railway business environment
it was decided that a modular product platform for electric locomotives
should be developed, based on the new strategies for the global positioning
of Adtranz products. METUS was to be used both to analyse relevant
future developments and to design the platform for the new locomotive
range. Moreover the complex supplier structure was also to be simplified. |
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Procedure
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Development
of scenarios for worldwide rail traffic and deriving of strategic
consequences for the product vision using METUS.strategy; |
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Implementation
of five workshop series on the car body, propulsion, bogie,
communication and control, and driver’s cab subsystem
levels; configuration of product structures for each subsystem; |
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Survey of evaluation
criteria (“Rules for structuring”); |
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Implementation
of an integration workshop to consolidate the subsystems; |
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Definition
of the interfaces between the subsystems; |
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Evaluation and
optimisation of the identified overall concept. |
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Results
The final assembly line was considerably simpler than that of the
pre-METUS situation. Instead of more than 7,500 individual components
previously, there are now 40 complete modules to be used as building
blocks. This is matched by a simplified organisational system:
Out of more than 200 suppliers originally, only around 40 are still
required today, one for each module, drastically reducing the organisational
complexity from the manufacturer’s point of view. And the
savings made on the redundant parts alone led to a cost reduction
of over 10 per cent. |
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Please contact us at:
Dr. Jan R. Göpfert
Phone: +49 (89) 480 88 281
METUS method
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