Justification Study Of Automation At Douglas Electronics Company

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to do the required task in the shortest amount of time. The whole work cell will be designed so that the assembly line will be both continuous and synchronized. I am assured that the floor space now available will be more than adequate and could even be reduced by approximately 50 % of the space now allocated to production, upon completion of the project. Two workers will be relocated to other parts of the manufacturing firm to ease our increasing need for qualified workers.

SUBJECT: JUSTIFICATION OF THREE ROBOTS

The following is a proposal to purchase three Robots to replace the final hand assembly of our tape recorder in the plant. I have used, for the justification of the proposed Robots, a formula for return on investment and production rate payback in my feasibility study. This is a list of before and after costs and expenses used to determine our annual savings and payback expected from the move to automation of our plant.

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tape recorders requires 1456 square feet of floor space to complete the job. The implementation of Robot Automation would result in a work cell encompassing 643 square feet of floor space. Not only will we have the advantages already expressed to our product, we would conserve valuable floor space with the possibility of adding another automation cell in the future.

Our study shows the production these three Robots could accomplish in just two shifts. If we were to run them for an additional shift, there would be greater cost savings resulting in even higher profit per machine, not to mention the increased production of our product. Our current operation of delivery of product ...

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