Applications of Lean Tools for Compressor Assembly Line

Abstract

In last decades, competition between several industries to deliver high quality products is marginally increasing in terms of costs and performance. Lean manufacturing is one of those activities, which focus on the reduction of cost by eliminating non value adding activities. The general idea behind Lean manufacturing is to eliminate non value adding activities which again leads to eliminate waste. Higher flexibility, better quality and effective production system the manufacturer requires new ideas on production line. All the Lean tools are used to implement newer ideas into production line which improves the overall production process. This Paper addresses the application of lean manufacturing philosophy to the compressor assembly line of a well-known industry. In this paper, Failure Mode Effective Analysis, Value Stream Analysis and Takt time are the lean tools effectively integrated resulting in the improvement in terms of cycle time, space available, distance travelled by worker and productivity which leads to delivering the customer demand within time.