Implementation of Productivity Improvement Techniques in Wood Industry

Abstract

In Industries, it is very important to save time and money in manufacturing products, because there is lots of competition in the industrial world. The main objective of this study is to improve productivity of the wood industry by implementing different types of productivity improvement techniques such as 5S, Lean Manufacturing, JIT, TQM, 6 Sigma, Kanban, Jidoka and PDCA, etc. Improvement can be done by above techniques and by observing the working process cycle and study of the machineries, time study, identifying the problems during process, process analysis, study of inventory management process, and make the solution on the based problems. The purpose of this study is to eliminate the wastes and reduce the idle times in industry.