PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT BY APPLICATION OF LEAN THINKING FOR INCREMENT OF PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY THROUGH VALUE STREAM MAPPING IN MANUFACTURING COMPANY- A CASE STUDY

Mechanical Engineering

Lean manufacturing thinking has potential to be applied to any process in order to identify critical areas of improvement. Value stream mapping is also lean thinking which gives detailed process flow from supplier to customer consists material flow and information flow as well. Current value stream map gives current product or process efficiency and also gives where it can be improved. Accordingly, future state map is generated so that process will be more efficient as compared to previous. In this study first the data is collected from shop floor. Then applying value stream mapping to processing line. Current and future state value stream map is generated for company. The cycle time of machining station is higher than that of the TAKT time hence company cannot able to meet customer demand. Accordingly, action plan generated for the process improvement so that company can meet customer demand. Value stream map is an effective tool to describe overall process from order to delivery. In this study there is lead time reduction by generation current state and future state for process using various techniques. Thus, the main aim of this work to enhance production by reduction of lead time. Finally, gain in production, reduction in lead time and reduction in inventory between the stations are also reported.

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