This paper describes an exploratory study of lean techniques and an extant of its implementation in a pharmaceutical industries. The main purpose of this paper is, at how much extant adoption of lean techniques and elimination of wastage and non-value added activities in a pharmaceutical industries. A questionnaire survey is prepared to know the extent of lean techniques implementation. Questionnaire survey send to the respondents of various department (production and planning, human resources, quality and control, transportation, inventory control etc.) of an organization and asked to rate the each of these areas. This study also inspect the drivers and barriers that affect the adoption of lean techniques. The mean value for each area is obtain after calculations on SPSS and statistical analyses were performed for each area. Further, this study also examined different subjects related with lean techniques adoption for example its comprehension among the respondent organization, its advantages and impediments, the techniques and tools used, etc. The outcomes from this study also revealed the hindrance that forestall or postpone the lean execution. The main obstacles in adoption of lean technology are the absence of understanding lean ideas and shop floor representative’s attitude. Keywords: lean manufacturing, lean barriers, SPSS, mean score, driving forces

Today intense competition conditions in the market and customers expectation increasing continually. So companies have required to increase the product quality continually, insure profitability, decrease the cost in all process and improve productivity in all process. Productivity shows to the how efficiently the resources are transforming into useful goods and services. The automobile sectors today using to the kaizen process for continuous improvement, where "KAI" (change) and "ZEN" (better) called by Japanese, which means better change. The kaizen approach eliminates to the unnecessary activities and it improves to low performance activity. This study describes a kaizen application in tyre building process during bead setting operation in production department of a CEAT tyre company. The effect of kaizen implementation in a tyre company during the bead setting process is that, the number of scrap reduced and breakdown time reduced from 20.02 hrs /month to 9.88 hrs/month as a result production of product improved by 608 tyres/month. After the implementation of kaizen approach productivity improved by 1.45%.

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