Designing a Future Value Stream Mapping to Reduce Lead Time -A Manufacturing Real Case Study
Journal Title: REST Journal on Emerging trends in Modelling and Manufacturing - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
Companies in the manufacturing industry today are faced with increasing challenges with respect to cost effectiveness, lead time and quality of the production system. Mesfin Industrial Engineering and other Ethiopian manufacturers struggle with improving productivity, producing the right products or services at the right place and meeting on-time delivery. The main objective of this study is to design an efficient Value Stream Mapping (VSM) to improve the productivity in Small Medium Enterprise (SME) by eliminating non-value added activities. Dealing with these contradictory goals, an important task is the selection of suitable solutions with new proposed model for the integration of identification processes within the process chain, which are necessary to ensure the required production quality. For this, supportive and easily applicable planning techniques are required to analyze and design the configuration of an individual respective process chain. MIE has implemented some improvement tools and techniques such as quality management system (QMS), kaizen, quality circle, and 5S; however, the required change didn’t come. So, value stream mapping technique is found suitable to bring the required improvements by identifying major wastes and reducing those wastes encountered the company in manufacturing of dry cargo trailer. A future value stream map is then established to highlight the improved area and applied lean tools. As a conclusion, this paper presents that the designed Future Value Stream Map (FVSM) helps to effectively identify wasteful activities and production processes. The implementation of the developed approach is exemplarily shown for a complex value chain of a manufacturer in the automotive industry, Ethiopia.
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Ashish Thakur
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