Implementation of Lean Manufacturing Practice In Automotive Industry

Higher productivity in organizations leads to national prosperity and better standard of living for the whole community. In this competitive world, any company has to fulfil its customer needs to survive in the market. Lean manufacturing is a practice which focusing on customer needs and fulfil it by delivering the requirements at less time with high quality and through less cost eliminating all kinds of wastes that present in the company by continuous improvement. The implementation of lean manufacturing practice in a company using seven step methodology that focuses the lead time reduction by eliminating non value-added time and decreasing the intermediate stocks through VSM to identify improvements and use of kanban, 5S, point of use, visual management, levelled inventory to improve flow, Create flow and work standard procedure to eliminate inefficiencies. The results drawn from the implementation serve to demonstrate that an operative decision has helped to improve the lean parameters, in particular to reduce the lead time and increase the value added time and shows the transformation of a former line manufacturing organization into a better lean organization at a lower time.

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Dr. K. P. Paranitharan is a Consultant of Intelligence Quality, Chennai, India. He obtained his Bachelor's in Engineering, Master's in Lean Manufacturing and PhD in industrial Engineering from the Anna University, Chennai, India. He has published in referred international journals. His research interest are manufacturing management & data analysis.