Instituto Superior Técnico                

Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Departamento de Engenharia mecânica





Plant layout for the production of Formula SAE competition cars

                                      Objective:

• Development of a manufacturing structure for the industrial production of Formula-SAE like single-seaters race cars                                                   

                                   Intended production:

• 4 cars a day
• Limited production run

• Cellular layout
• Faster processing time
• Less material handling
• Less work-in-progress inventory

• Flexibility
• Allows for the production of small batches

• Motivation
• Workers are cross-trained to run every machine in the cell