Design and standardization methodology for automotive manufacturing application to the filed of heavy duty vehicles

The work carried out within the company OMAR S.R.L. is part of a large project that provides for the growth of the company's production level. The project develops starting from the will of the company to standardize some components used in most of the works carried out in order to increase the production level. This desire clashes with the company's request to maintain its value of customization, one of the key elements that makes the company unique and highlights the characteristics of craftsmanship at European and world level of the company. As a first point of the project, the company's volumes will be analyzed in order to understand which is the large number of products made and to understand which are the elements that unite these vehicles and which are different, thus creating custom elements. It will go then to study in analytical way and subsequently also through the numerical method the actual model of the present vehicles in company. The study will be concentrated more on the chassis realized by the firm. The purpose of this work will allow the collection of frames produced today and the implementation of modules applicable to more vehicles. Within the modules there will be components that will remain standard, and therefore applicable to most of the vehicles produced while some components will remain variable in order to ensure the customization required. At the end of the project there will be an attempt to realize the studied module close to production for prototyping.