Utveckling av interna transportflöden: En fallstudie utförd på Volvo CE Braås om utmaningar idag och i framtiden med koppling till säkerhet och produktivitet

Sammanfattning: Background: By optimizing a company's internal flows, several benefits, including reduction of waiting time and incidents, can be generated. A relevant starting point for the concept of lean production is the effort to reduce the amount of waste. A variant of an improvement tool is a so-called spaghetti diagram. This tool is considered optimal partly to reduce the amount of waste associated with the current layout and the flows that exist in the warehouse, and partly to get a picture of what safety looks like and how it could be optimized. This with regard to the way forklifts and people may relate to each other to avoid incidents, including collisions. Purpose: The purpose of the paper is, based on Volvo CE Braås logistics center, to study today's internal transport flows, its frequency and challenges associated with these in terms of safety and productivity. Furthermore, the purpose is to examine the corresponding transport flows in Volvo CE Braås logistics layout 2025, its frequency and how challenges related to safety and productivity at this stage can be addressed. Method: The study involves a qualitative approach where a case study has been conducted. Primary and secondary data has been collected in the form of both semi-structured and unstructured interviews. To create a well-founded analysis, pattern comparison has been chosen as the approach for the analysis method. This is because a theoretical basis is seen in relation to the basis that has been obtained from Volvo CE Braås, in order to obtain as well-founded a result as possible. Results: Regarding the frequency of transports in and out of the Volvo CE Braås logistics center in the current logistics layout, challenges have been identified in terms of safety and productivity. Challenges related to safety have turned out to be high frequency of internal transports, pedestrians and crossing flows. In terms of productivity, challenges also include the high frequency of internal transports and pedestrians moving in and out of the logistics center. Regarding future safety challenges in the 2025 logistics layout, they could be addressed by introducing one-way areas, optimizing the number of trucks, providing safety information and introducing automatic measurement of internal transports. In terms of productivity challenges, these could be addressed by introducing one-way areas, maintaining good communication, optimizing the number of trucks, providing safety information, offering training and introducing separate placement of AGVs and a separate loading area for trucks.