Study on Productivity Improvement in Medium Scale Manufacturing Industry by Execution of Lean Tools

Abstract

In current scenario, all the manufacturing industries are placing constant efforts for their endurance in the current global volatile economy. Manufacturing industries are annoying to implement new and professional techniques in their regular production processes. Some of the recognized tools are applied and their awareness has been growing among the industries, especially in production sector. Last two decades have witnessed an explosion in the area of quality and productivity improvement initiatives in the manufacturing industries by different tools and techniques such as lean manufacturing, total quality management, total productive maintenance, six sigma implementation etc. The objective of this study is to enlighten the importance of lean techniques implementation in a medium scale belt manufacturing industry. This research study helps to exhibit the existing hidden potential in the selected industry as well as a selection of appropriate techniques for productivity improvements. Also, it aims to eradicate wastes and non-value added activities at every stage in order to enhance the overall productivity. From the results after implementation of appropriate lean techniques it was found that, the lead time was reduced about 1256 minutes and the overall production was increased by about 9%.

Application of mixed methodologies to increase the productivity of an agro-industrial company

“…Companies in the manufacturing sector that process agricultural products present various problems, some of them are the high percentage of losses, they do not consider the order of the work area, the cleanliness of the production area as essential factors for the development of their operations, and they do not have with a maintenance plan or do not comply with the plan [5]. On the other hand, the low general efficiency of the equipment (OEE) and the lack of process standardization is a common problem in companies in this sector [10].…”

“…Productivity is one of the most appropriate measures to monitor long-term manufacturing excellence [4]. For example, a literature review shows that after applying the corresponding Lean tools, a medium-scale organization in India managed to increase its productivity by 9% [5].…”

Competence Management in Industry 4.0: An Innovative Concept to Support a Skill@Mgmt 4.0 tool

“…Furthermore, this management at the organizational level can improve performance and facilitate the decision-making for the managers (Coates et al, 2007). The skill matrix, considered a Lean tools (Punna Rao et al, 2020), is used in a systematic way to manage the skill shifts in a team, which allows to identify the gap between the current situation and the expected one (Kobus, 2016). It can be used as a table to shows the skills levels of a certain person in different tasks (Princy, 2016).…”