OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT BY LEAGILE APPROACH

This research work is carried out in a air compressor manufacturing company which produces different models of air compressors. The work aim was to improve the productivity by reducing the total operating cycle time, unnecessary motions, material handling, and to create a standardized working environment. Two stations namely drive and lubrication assembly and testing were found out to be the bottleneck stations, and efforts are taken to improve its productivity. Kaizen's were planned for improvement activities and were implemented subsequently. These improvement actions were based on Lean production organizational model and application of Lean tools. The current agility level of the firm was calculated and suggestions were given to improve the agility level of the firm.