Improve the productivity of rubber bushings in a rubber moulding company by applying the Lean Principle
The rubber moulding manufacturing businesses are facing problems to fulfil the customer requirements and stay competitive with the global players in terms of cost, quality and services. Some of the notable rubber moulding industries are unable to meet the customer requirements in the aspect of de...
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2021
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| Online Access: | http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1538/1/library-document-1538.pdf http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1538/ |
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| Institution: | Open University Malaysia |
| Summary: | The rubber moulding manufacturing businesses are facing problems to fulfil the
customer requirements and stay competitive with the global players in terms of cost,
quality and services. Some of the notable rubber moulding industries are unable to meet
the customer requirements in the aspect of delivery time and demand. One of the
reasons why most of the rubber moulding manufacturing companies are still unable to
implement lean manufacturing systems due to a lack of knowledge and information.
The drive for yearly cost savings from automotive customers has driven suppliers to
research ways to improve production efficiency and raise production. Companies are
continuously searching for new instruments to optimise manufacturing processes,
which provide considerable increases in productivity, savings and customer
satisfaction. This study aims to reduce waste and increase the productivity of the rubber
moulding manufacturing process by using the Lean principles, which can help identify
waste from information flow, material flow, and process flow. In this study, lean
principles with the support of the Ishikawa Diagram were able to find the highest
cessation process that contributed to non-value-added activities in rubber production.
Finishing processes, which have the highest process steps selected for improvement
study. The study shows that productivity increased by implementing the cellular
manufacturing principles. A complete process step can be reduced from 22.5 hours to
0.5 hours in the Finishing process. (Abstract by author) |
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