Cycle Time Reduction Through Jishuken activity and Low Cost Automation (LCA)

ABSTRACT India has grown a lot in recent times and also its economy is incrementally growing. To hold on to this growth, quality infrastructure is needed which includes of reducing labor cost, and increasing the quality of the products. The automotive industry has been experiencing a competitive environment and striving hard to find methods to reduce manufacturing cost, waste and improve quality. Low Cost Automation promotes cost effective reference architectures and growth approaches for production and carriage that properly incorporates human skill and technical solutions, includes shop floor production support and decentralized process control plans, addresses automation integrated with information processing as well as automation of non-sophisticated and easily handled operations for productive maintenance. For this we should reduce the cycle time so that the productivity of the organization will increase and which helps in keeping the economy of the organization. For reducing the cycle time in the production line first we should do time study of the system and implement some small kaizen and remove all no value added activities. Keywords: Cycle time, Takt time, Ergo study, Time study, Yamazumi, Kaizen, Jishuken, Muda, Mura, Muri.