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Rightsizing and Management of Prototype
Vehicle Testing at Ford Motor Company
KENNETH CHELST
JOHN SIDELKO
ALEX PRZEBIENDA
JEFFREY LOCKLEDGE
DiMITRIOS MlHAILIDIS
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing
Engineering, Wayne State...
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Rightsizing and Management of Prototype
Vehicle Testing at Ford Motor Company
KENNETH CHELST
JOHN SIDELKO
ALEX PRZEBIENDA
JEFFREY LOCKLEDGE
DiMITRIOS MlHAILIDIS
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing
Engineering, Wayne State University
4815 Fourth Street, Detroit, Michigan 48202
Amazon Platform, Ford Motor Company
17425 Federal Drive, Allen Park, Michigan 48101
Product Development Process Leadership
Ford Motor Company, 20901 Oakwood,
PO Box 2053, Dearborn, Michigan 48121-2053
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing
Engineering, Wayne State University
Technological Education Institute of Crete
Estavromenos, 71500, Heraklion, Crete
The prototype vehicles that Ford Motor Company uses to verify new designs are a major annual investment.
A team of engineering managers studying for master s degrees in a Wayne
State University program taught at Ford adapted a classroom
set-covering example to begin development of the prototype
optimization model (POM).
Ford uses the POM and its related
expert systems to budget, plan, and manage prototype test
fleets and to maintain testing integrity, reducing annual prototype costs by more than $250 million.
POM s first use on the
European Transit vehicle reduced costs by an estimated $12
million.
The model dramatically shortened the planning process, established global procedures, and created a common
structure for dialogue between budgeting and engineering.
In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford
Motor Company with an initial investment of $100,000.
In 1910, Ford opened a
large factory in Highland Park, Michigan,
to meet the growing demand for the
Model T.
Here, Henry Ford combined precision manufacturing, standardized and
interchangeable parts, division of labor.
and, in 1913, a continuous moving assembly line.
The introduction of the moving
assembly line revolutionized automobile
production by drastically cutting assembly
time per vehicle and thus lowering costs.
Ford s production of Model Ts made his
company the largest automobile manufacturer in the world at that time.
Today,
Copyright © 2001 INFORMS
0092-2102/01 /3101 /0091 /$05.
00
1526-551X electronic ISSN
INDUSTRIES—TRANSPORTATION/SHIPPING
DECISION ANALYSIS—APPLICATIONS
INTERFACES 31: 1 January-February 2001 (pp.
91-107)
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