...Armagan Altinisik; Utku Yildirim; Y. Ilker Topcu Purpose The tightening operations are one of the most critical operations in automotive assembly lines because of its direct impact on customer safety. This study aims to evaluate the major complexity drivers for manual tightening operations...

... on the failure occurrence from the most important one to the least as: connector width, work height, connector height, engagement length, male pigtail and female pig tail. They also performed a restricted pilot study in an automotive assembly line...

... information. Hua Wang can be contacted at: huawang@sjtu.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Automotive assembly Optimal fitting Taillight fitting Weighted Gaussian imaging method Fitting contour of typical car taillight is related to trunk, bumper and taillight...