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The company KES - Cable and Electric Systems, spol. s r. o. is constantly looking for new ways to improve its manufacturing and logistics processes in order to meet customer needs. Due to the constantly increasing requirements on the supply reliability and the quality of the heating sets, the company decided to implement principles of lean, especially team based cellular manufacturing. The basic objectives in the creation of the cellular heating sets manufacturing system were to eliminate unproductive time, increase production quality, improve material flow continuity and increase production volume. The aim of the paper is to point out the benefits and possible problems of implementing the team based cellular manufacturing system in the automotive industry.
Keywords: Team based cellular manufacturing, heating sets, lean manufacturing, automotive industry© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.