An investigation on Lean Manufacturing System in Submersible Pump Industries -Ahmedabad Region

摘要

In the field of the Mechanical Engineering, there are two biggest revolution. One is Mass production system which was introduced by Henry Ford and Second is Lean Manufacturing System which was introduced by Toyota company in Japan so, it was popular as Toyota Production System. Lean manufacturing System is widely known as a Lean Production System or Lean Philosophy. The researcher just investigates the feasibility of Lean and implementation of Lean philosophy in two different company of submersible pump manufacturer in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, with the focus of increasing in the production by eliminating the wastes and Non-Value added activities. The submersible pump industries are characterized by concentrated energy and raw material, large work in process, inventories so need to increase production to meet the high demands. This situation is not reaching the expectation of high machine utilization and production rates, and trouble free operation process with in the pump production line has motivated the undertaken research to design an integrated framework by which the submersible pump production improved and boosted. The undertaken research proposes standards steps that can be carried out in lean evolution which mainly adopted from the lean philosophy. However, the research here will undertake a novel step in the submersible pump production line with 5s, Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and Just in Time (JIT). These lean tools developed solution that can be applied to improve production. It will help to conveying the message to the decision makers that the Submersible Pump manufacturing industries can be changed from traditional mass production into Lean industries.