IMPLEMENTING LEAN IN AUTO PARTS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY by Goldy Choudhary
Abstract
Lean is a technique that is used to accelerate rate of production and minimize the cost of any process by eliminating the waste in either manufacturing or service. The waste may be non-value added cost or unwanted waiting time with in the process caused by defects, over production, and other processes. The non-value added activity in the process is a serious issue in medium scale industries. The nonvalue added events are inversely connected to the output of a company. Many companies are focusing on the elimination of non-value added activities. In present work, a case study has been undertaken for measuring the non-value added events typically study as non-value and suggesting right solution to decrease the impression of these events on product. The organization is engaged in production of various types of automobile sheet metal components. In this case study, “Plate RR up cross” selected due to its problem of long production lead time. The lean manufacturing tools such as VSM, Sequence method are proposed for productivity improvement. It has been observed that production lead time was reduced by 24.76% in this case study.
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