Role of Lean Manufacturing Tools in Soft Drink Company

International Journal of Mechanical Engineering

© 2018 by SSRG - IJME Journal

Volume 5 Issue 1

Year of Publication : 2018

Authors : Shaik Dawood A.K., Elsayed A Elsayed, Abdul Rahaman, R. Karthikeyan

10.14445/23488360/IJME-V5I1P101

How to Cite?

Shaik Dawood A.K., Elsayed A Elsayed, Abdul Rahaman, R. Karthikeyan, "Role of Lean Manufacturing Tools in Soft Drink Company," SSRG International Journal of Mechanical Engineering, vol. 5,  no. 1, pp. 1-7, 2018. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488360/IJME-V5I1P101

Abstract:

In a present customer-driven market, it urges the industry to implement lean tools to reduce waste. This paper utilizes the applications of Lean manufacturing tools like Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and Jidoka in continuously improving bottle filling and crowning operations at soft drink companies. Waste reduction becomes an increasingly dominant force in the modern manufacturing world. The most important tools in Jidoka are Andon and Poka-Yoke. Andonis a visual control that helps the operator notify the machines' status and manufacturing line in the manufacturing process. Poka-yoke devices are made for mistake-proving pieces. Because of that, they can be classified as proactive and reactive devices. The proactive prevents the defects, and the reactive detects the defects once they are already produced. The main parameters taken are missing operation, underfill, overfill, breakages. Data are collected for the filling and crowning operations so that the facts about the problem are accurately described. Pareto charts and cause & effect diagrams are used to present the key problems which can be improved. This paper also deals with the productivity improvement using VSM on the assembly line. It is a lean venture towards perfection and an attempt to identify non-value adding activities, thereby enhancing productivity.

Keywords:

Jidoka, Value stream mapping (VSM), Lean Manufacturing (LM), Andon, Poka-yoke

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