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Case Study On Value Stream Mapping

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Companies compete with others across global market to gain competitive advantage. Customers desire high quality products which meet their specification at reasonable price. Customers want manufacturers to meet their demands, and they switch to different brands if their needs are unmet. Thus, manufacturers are looking for ways to speed up their process and at same time achieve highest level of customer satisfaction. Lean methodology is one of the ways by which manufacturers can achieve the same. Lean is a philosophy that focuses on maximizing value to a customer and at the same time minimizing waste. This philosophy can be applied across all processes of the business. Lean methodology overcomes various waste associated with the process. There are various lean tools like Value Stream Mapping, JIT, TPM, 5S, Jidoka, Kaizen etc. which helps organization to streamline their process and giving customer products of highest quality thereby earning customer satisfaction. This project study was done at Hitachi Metals India Pvt. Ltd. The organization manufactures cores which are used in various electrical appliances like AC, TV, X-ray machines etc. There are two types of cores that are manufactured i.e. E-core and C-core. The process for both the cores was studied in detailed. The objective of study was to use Lean principles and Information …show more content…

5WHY analysis was done on the non-value adding activity to understand the reason why it is carried out. A proposal was made to replace the handling of cores from bins to glass rods. Two trials were also conducted. The results of the two trials were statistically tested with actual results in SPSS. It was observed that there was no differences in mean inductance value of the cores before and after the trials were conducted. As a result of this, the changeover time was reduced from 94.35 minutes to 12.58

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