Title: Productivity enhancement in engine assembly using lean tools and techniques
Abstract: Lean assembling is bound together with a framework that is involved with a lot of ways of thinking, rules, instruments and strategies, which whenever forced, take out critical burn through and loss of time in all business formats for constant enhancement. But very scarce explorations about lean manufacturing implementation have been done in automobile industry. This paper represents the productivity enhancement using basic lean manufacturing tools in engine assembly at Renault Nissan Automotive India Private Limited Coimbatore. This paper highlights a methodology developed for standardization and improvement in the process of engine assembly activities using lean manufacturing tools and techniques line by using DMAIC approach. Productivity enhancement is the primary goal which is to be achieved for any profitable manufacturing system. All this initiated by performing study on the manual operator’s activities. For an engine assembly processes the tools description, process description and existing sheets were studied which provided detailed information about all the movements of assembly activities.
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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