Appling the work study To Reduce Production Lead Time and Improved Planning to Increase Productivity

The productivity improvement is a great significance for steel industries. There are limited resources which should be used to get the maximum output i.e., there should be attempts to perform a job by cheaper, safer and quicker ways. The aim should be optimum utilization of resources, so as to provide maximum satisfaction. The productivity improvement in steel industry can be approached by different methods. On this thesis productivity improvement by reducing lead time through work study are done, because rolling work is labor-intensive and largely depends on the plant layout and sensibility of the operator. The productivity of a factory is adversely affected by the advantage of the operators. The objective of this research is to study plant layout of NCRM (Narrow cold rolling mill division) of Ruchi steel Ltd. Ghatta villod based on the layout planning for increased productivity. In this case study, amount of time required in rolling coil production are studied. The detailed study of the plant layout such as operation process charts and flow of material charts and new plant layout has been investigated. The new plant layout has been designed and compared with the present plant layout. The thesis showed that new plant layout significantly decrease the distance of material flow from pickling process until packing in packing department. This thesis is divided in to nine chapters the introduction part which includes the introduction of company and different operations perform in the plant. There is a bird’s eye view study of plant layout and different operations perform in first chapter. The second chapter includes problem formulation. The third chapter includes the literature review .The fourth and fifth chapters’ deals with description of work study approach and different work study techniques and introduced to study different charts and diagrams used in work study. The next part which is chapter six includes methodology in which present methodology and proposed methodology is discussed. In this chapter existing plant layout and proposed plant layout is also compared. The chapter seventh and eighth includes conclusion and reference respectively. Most companies highly utilize the scientific method of work study application. However, BSL Ghatta villod is looking forward to follow the best practice to improve productivity. The main intention of the thesis to reduce time required performing different operations and it can be achieve by analyzing plant layout of NCRM Division, BSL, Ghatta villod.