APICS The Association for Operations Management

Youngstown, Ohio                   

Advancing Productivity, Innovation, and Competitive Success

 

Plant Tour

Thursday, November 13th @ 6:00 p.m.

Delphi – Vienna Molding Plant

3400 Aero Park Drive

Vienna, OH

 Please confirm your attendance by Monday, November 10, 2008 as space is limited.  Send your name and number touring to Dana Scott dana.scott@wheatland.com or John Primm primmjohn@yahoo.com.

  

Delphi’s 190,000 sq. ft. plant in Vienna Township produces approximately 400 different parts for over 100 customers. The molding process uses 23 resin families and approximately 90 different compounds. The plants 120 injection presses are currently being expanded with the addition of presses being moved from Delphi’s Cortland facility. The plant operates a sophisticated material-handling system, which handles up to 32 materials at a time.

 The Vienna plant operates 3 turns making a variety of connector housings, clips, clamps, and related components on Fanuc Roboshot Si-B all-electric presses. Each machine is modified for Delphi with an interface to the auxiliary equipment in the manufacturing cell, an Ethernet hub, and special controls that are compatible with the plant-wide GE Fanuc Cimplicity manufacturing system, which ties virtually every piece of equipment in the plant to one control room. Each cell has a press-side granulator with sensors to detect the presence of material that needs to be ground, plus vacuum take-away of regrind to bins for reuse. The cell also has a barcode printer to produce labels for each container of finished parts, and the cell sends a signal for an automated guided vehicle (AGV) to pick up the parts and deliver them to the shipping area.