Lean Implementation through Enhancing Productivity in a Pump Industry

Lead time is the time spent between the original customer order and final delivery of the product. Project work is being carried out in a pump manufacturing industry located in Coimbatore. Lead time is calculated by adding value added and other Non-value added time. The primary data is collected by conducting survey of past data in which the project conduct questionnaire sessions at the respondents include officers, engineers, managers and senior managers from planning production, purchase, quality control, maintenance, human resources, store, supply chain, and material department of the Company. The lean tools that are applied in this project are Kaizen, Layout optimization, setup time reduction and Line Balancing which eliminates inventory which in turn reduces the lead time. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) has been used as a tool to map the present and the future state process. Application of these lean tools has resulted in the reduction of lead time by 8.26days.Empirical data was collected through a comprehensive literature review of earlier studies over this topic.