CRITICAL MANUFACTURING PROCESS IN TYRE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY OF THE INDIAN SSES

Indian tyre industry is adopting new technologies for improving its products to sustain in the global competition. The main focus is to develop efficient and durable tyres at affordable price by finding the most critical manufacturing process in tyre manufacturing. This paper concentrates on finding the most critical manufacturing process. The views of the experts of various fields have been considered for the same. The result shows that the curing of tyre is the most critical process followed by tyre building. The study proposes the process that can be optimized to enhance the quality of tyre manufacturing