Reduction of Wastages in Motor Manufacturing Industry.

Lean manufacturing appears to hold considerable promise for addressing a range of simultaneous, competitive demands including high levels of process and product quality, low cost and reductions in lead times. This research addresses the application of lean manufacturing concepts to the continuous production sector with a focus on the motor manufacturing industry. The goal of this research is to investigate how lean manufacturing tools can be adapted from the discrete to the continuous manufacturing environment. This paper presents lean manufacturing as a leading manufacturing paradigm applied in many sectors. The fundamental focus on lean production is the systematic elimination of non-value added activity and waste from the production process. The implementation of lean principles and methods results in improved system and surrounding performance. Value stream mapping is used to first map the current state used to identify sources of waste and to identify lean tools to eliminate this waste. The future state map is then developed for a system with lean tools applied to it. To quantify the benefits gained from using lean tools and techniques in the value stream mapping, a detailed simulation model is developed and a designed experiment is used to analyze the outputs of the simulation model for different lean configurations. This paper demonstrates the implementation of lean philosophy through layout modification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]