LEAN MANUFACTURING IMPLEMENTATION IN A GEAR SHAFT MANUFACTURING COMPANY USING VALUE STREAM MAPPING

摘要

Nowadays, Lean manufacturing application is reported for manufacturers in global level. Those reports have exposed that this application has enabled the companies to become competitive through the elimination of wastes while producing products and offering services. Various tools like 5S, Poka Yoke, Kaizen, Kanban, JIT, etc have been used while implementing lean manufacturing model in various types of organization. Recently, both researchers and practitioners have found that Value Stream Mapping (VSM) technique serves as a powerful vehicle in enabling organizations to implement lean manufacturing model. Meanwhile, it is found that lean manufacturing model is yet to be applied in the case of certain manufacturing products. One among those products is gear shaft. In this background the theoretical proposition of implementing lean manufacturing model in the case of manufacturing a gear shaft has been investigated in this article.