PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT THROUGH LEAN IMPLEMENTATION–A CASE STUDY

Abstract

Many organizations are nowadays interested in adopting lean manufacturing strategy that would enable them to compete in this globalization market. Lean production philosophy striving for elimination of all kind of waste, which is becomes the main target in industrial companies, as well as in food industrial organizations. Decreasing the process time and identifying all types of defects in the production line are critical in improving the productivity, especially in mass production companies. The objectives of this paper are implementing the lean production tools in a mass production company for food industry to reduce the major kinds of waste and increase the productivity of the company. This paper is focusing on collecting qualitative data about the major kinds of waste in the production line, and analyzing those data to find the root causes of the major wastes in all processes in the production line and trying to eliminate them in order to improve the productivity. The achieved results indicate that implementation of some lean tools in the company with the available resources without additional cost such as; routine maintenance, correction, adjustment and repair has a great impact on increasing machines availability, the total productivity and the net profit in the company.