Lean Manufacturing Case Study

In this chapter a brief discussion about the area of work and the present day scenario with regard to the work area and also about the motivation towards the project and the importance of the work in the present day and also about the usefulness and significance of the end result that is expected from the study and finally the problems are stated and objectives are framed.

1.1 Introduction and background to the study

In recent days, the world has become very competitive and all the organizations are working hard on getting more work done in less time and with greater ease. In any organization, it becomes very important to eliminate any form of waste that trouble the production process and leads to low efficiency of the production plant. The main focus is to maximize the flow which will ultimately leads to reaching customer demand and also customer satisfaction by providing the right product at right time in the right quantity and also quality at a good reasonable price. All these can be achieved by following a particular way in facing the competitiveness and problems faced. To overcome this, Lean manufacturing system was developed by Toyota and was called as Toyota production system. Lean manufacturing is mainly used to reduce all forms of waste in a system thus leading to a problem free atmosphere. Lean system helps the organization by eliminating wastes which could be in the form of excess production, unnecessary movement of materials,
Lean approach is a must in order to continuously improve the system and thus leading to steady production and attain good efficiency in the production system. In a paint manufacturing industry it becomes very important to follow the lean practises as the production system should focus on more