A Review on Concepts of Work-Study for Productivity Improvement

The globalization of Indian economy has faced a great challenge to the Indian industries in respect of productivity, quality, cost, delivery and so on. Productivity is very important factor for any firm to survive in this increasing competition and also to solve break throughs. The objective of this paper is to present an overview on various methodology which can be used for improvement of productivity in small and medium scale industries. Work-study concepts with Lean manufacturing tools, kaizen problem solving concept and cell manufacturing technique would result more effective for controlling various aspects in an industry with assured profit margins.