[Keith Seymore]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Igosplut</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Never heard that before, care to elaborate? </div></div>

Glad to (hopefully) help -

Build sheets are used to communicate specific option content to the remote areas of the vehicle assembly plant. Typically, that's rear axle pick/prep (where the correct axle is selected, shocks added, brake lines added, etc), motor line (where the correct engine is selected and hung on the carrier, trans added, accessory drive added, etc), seat cushion room (usually in a remote area due to fire concerns), front end sheet metal assembly, radiator support, etc. All of these separate &quot;feeder&quot; lines support the main line via carriers that provide the sub assembled material in sequence. Build sheets also ride along on the frame (main line) and body (trim line).

Naturally, by the time the car gets to the end of final it has accumulated quite a stack of papers. The individual build sheets and inspection tickets are reviewed and, once all the repairs are completed and bought off, the car is &quot;de-papered&quot; and &quot;de-stickered&quot; and readied for shipment. Because of the volume of papers (several documents supporting one complete vehicle per minute, in some cases) the records are not kept but discarded.

As I mentioned, however, human nature being what it is - many times the paperwork is simply left wherever it landed and the car constructed around it. Those are the ones we find (hopefully). More often we don't. Also - the use and/or placement of build sheets was not a &quot;Central Office&quot; defined or engineering controlled task; it was left to the individual plant's discretion. We sometimes find the build sheet for the wrong car (ie, the car in front, or several cars back) because of the resultant lack of priority.


Make sense?

K