Implementation of Lean Manufacturing in Tablet Tool Manufacturing Company

Abstract

This paper deals with implementation of lean manufacturing in Tablet tool manufacturing enterprise .Project Company is one of the SMEs located in industrial area in Vasai east. With the importance of being competitive in today's tablet tooling market, company was focusing their efforts towards lean manufacturing for achieving excellence. The main objective of this paper is to provide a background on lean manufacturing, present an overview of manufacturing wastes and introduce the tools and techniques that are used to transform a company into a high performing lean enterprise. Value stream mapping is a main tool used to identify the opportunities for various lean techniques. The focus of the lean manufacturing approach is on cost reduction by eliminating Non-Value added activities .Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is used to map the current operating state for production line, to identify sources of waste and to identify lean tools for reducing the waste .After analysis; a future state map has been developed for the system. Use of Lean tools gave a good understanding of product flow on the floor. Employees came to know exactly where the value is and the lead time associated with building product. Through Kaizen check sheet employees were made to interact and provide their suggestions. Also the elements were identified with the help of Gemba Walk. Finally the travel time of product is reduced by 1045 seconds. Employees became more confident for making small improvements from their side.