Impact of the Application of Lean Tools for Process Improvement in a Cooker Manufacturing Company

Abstract

Organizations in today’s context need to focus on continuous improvement in order to satisfy the customers by delivering high-quality products which in turn maximizes the profit through waste minimization in the production flow. Lean thinking is the main philosophy that helps the company to identify and reduce waste. The use of lean tools for organizations is considered to be a simple, efficient, and cost-effective solution for productivity improvement. It is the technique that originated in the automotive industry first. The main objective of this paper was to analyse and reduce the lead time of the cooker manufacturing process by evaluating each step of cooker manufacturing. Non- value-added activities were identified, and suggestions were given to reduce the same. Overall Equipment Efficiency of each machine was calculated for a month and suggestions were given to improve OEE. Pareto chart, why-why analysis, cause and effect diagram were used, and suggestions were given to reduce the cooker manufacturing lead time.