Kaizen on waste elimination
Kaizen on Waste Elimination
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Firstly we would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to Mr. Bhattacharya for suggesting us such meaningful project and providing the valuable guidance for the same .The classroom sessions were very informative and helped us gain a deep insight for the understanding different aspects of Operations Management. Through this project we could experience our classroom learning & concepts into real working environment.
We would also like thank our colleagues for providing us valuable ideas & suggestions that were instrumental for the completion of this project.
Lastly we are also grateful to XLRI administration for providing us the facilities that helped us gather the required data & material without which completion of this project was practically impossible.
Problem Statement:
It was observed with constant monitoring of Raw Material Receiving system and with Combustion Air Fan System, that lot of running time were not being fully utilized. Due to this unnecessary power wastages were happening, which resulted in financial loss as well as extra wear & tear of the machine. Our suggestion was to eliminate this idle power hour usage through Kaizen.
Project taken:
Possible measures to reduce power leakages:
Arrest leakages in suction chambers Prevent any interruptions in operation Fan stoppage during major S/D
Raw Material Receiving system has 4 parts to feed, namely Blended Mix, Limestone, Solid Fuel & Calcined Lime. There is certain required rate to feed from all feeders, and certain number of feeders to feed all type of materials. Constraint with all feeders is that it can be run only upto a specified RPM.
After doing Why-Why Analysis, our observation was that all feeders were running at its capacity for almost 24 Hrs a day. But the actual requirement for the machines to be in running state was only 5 hrs. So rest of the time, even though the machine were
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Firstly we would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to Mr. Bhattacharya for suggesting us such meaningful project and providing the valuable guidance for the same .The classroom sessions were very informative and helped us gain a deep insight for the understanding different aspects of Operations Management. Through this project we could experience our classroom learning & concepts into real working environment.
We would also like thank our colleagues for providing us valuable ideas & suggestions that were instrumental for the completion of this project.
Lastly we are also grateful to XLRI administration for providing us the facilities that helped us gather the required data & material without which completion of this project was practically impossible.
Problem Statement:
It was observed with constant monitoring of Raw Material Receiving system and with Combustion Air Fan System, that lot of running time were not being fully utilized. Due to this unnecessary power wastages were happening, which resulted in financial loss as well as extra wear & tear of the machine. Our suggestion was to eliminate this idle power hour usage through Kaizen.
Project taken:
Possible measures to reduce power leakages:
Arrest leakages in suction chambers Prevent any interruptions in operation Fan stoppage during major S/D
Raw Material Receiving system has 4 parts to feed, namely Blended Mix, Limestone, Solid Fuel & Calcined Lime. There is certain required rate to feed from all feeders, and certain number of feeders to feed all type of materials. Constraint with all feeders is that it can be run only upto a specified RPM.
After doing Why-Why Analysis, our observation was that all feeders were running at its capacity for almost 24 Hrs a day. But the actual requirement for the machines to be in running state was only 5 hrs. So rest of the time, even though the machine were