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Gun assembly lineCMI DEFENCE SAS – Distroff site

Innovation and security

8 January,

20181

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Project summary

Establishment of an assembly line for different types of

guns:

MK3 / MK8 / 105 / 120, produced and assembled at the Distroff

site, adapted to other sites of the sector.

Integration of parts produced on the Distroff site, supplied

by the purchasing department.

8 January,

20182

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Project initiators

Distroff site

COLICA Pascal

DAGNEAUX Christophe

DEJARDIN Stéphane

ESLING Jacques

EREL François

PERRIN Lionel

BRISTOT Francis

Aubange site

PIERROT Jean Pol

8 January,

20183

Project sponsors: Patrick RIBAYROL and Alain PERRACHE

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Initial situation / prior needs

Initial situation

1. Production objectives for the AB contract and other

contracts

2. New activities for the Distroff site: manufacturing of

parts and assembling of guns

3. Empty assembling hall / trestles – supports – blank

sheet

Prior needs

1. Motivation and involvement of operators and

supervision

2. Large autonomy to implement the project

8 January,

20184

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Sketch of the project

8 January,

20185

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Objectives of the project

8 January,

20186

Attain the production objectives of the AB contract: Resources to adapt for assembling at least one gun per day and deployment of most appropriate means

Assembling of a gun:

Over a period of 7 hours

Per station, with two operators (configuration at the start of the LEAN worksite)

Safety: optimize the ergonomics of handling operations and gestures and postures of operators assembling the cannon

Reduce the use of travelling cranes to a maximum

Facilitate the handling operations of parts and subassemblies

Cost reduction (Improvement plan 11)

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What has been done / put in place

8 January,

20187

A set of tools and support for:

An assembly line composed of two workstations:

First workstation: Assembling the gun (before and after decoring)

Feeding of line by racks of empty and full lines

Feeding of racks and list placement to be used by the little train

Second workstation: Gymnastics (firing simulation by mechanical means) of

the gun (before and after decoring)

Installation of a sequencer: tool used to materialize the customer’s request and

to response as accurately as possible. It determines the assembly sequence on

the line

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Tools designed and made at Distroff 1/2

8 January,

20188

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Tools designed and made at Distroff 2/2

8 January,

20189

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Assembly line fed by the “little train”

10

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105 / MK3 guns waiting decoring or delivery

8 January,

201811

105 mm

Mk3

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Public affected/concerned

Gun assembling operators at the Distroff site

Operators from other sites who have to intervene on the guns (e.g.

Commercy site, a customer, etc.)

Engineering offices, QA-QC departments

8 January,

201812

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Date and scope of achievement/implementation

Scope: CMI Defence site at Distroff

Project launch in mid 2016

Life-size test on 24/08/2016

Commissioning in 2016

8 January,

201813

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Project promotion/media coverage method

Publication of a brief on the Mike Defence

Page and in the ECHO Defence

newsletter.

Presentation to the audience of the 270th

session in the region of the Institut des

Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale

(IHEDN) [National Defence Institute] on

15 November 2017

8 January,

201814

https://mike.cmipass.net/FR/defence/Newsletters

/20170623--CMID--Echo30-FR.pdf

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Sustainable/reproducible nature of the

project

Project carried out to:

Meet the delivery objectives of the AB contract

assemble the 4 guns proposed by the Defence sector on an assembly line

Assembly line transposable to the different sites of the Defence sector, to the

future defence customers.

8 January,

201815

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Measured impact

The objective of assembling a gun per workstation with two operators is

achieved ( LEAN)

Assembling operation facilitated thanks to toos designed and built by the

operators

Great staff motivation and involvement

Improvement of safety* in assembling guns

8 January,

201816

* For information, the number of days without accident at Distroff in November 2017 is 3217

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Operational gun assembly line

8 January,

201817

Sixteen 105mm guns

assembled since

commissioning (14 for the AB

contract)

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www.cmigroupe.com

8 January,

201818

Thank you