Abstract

The aim of this paper is to reduce the cycle time for the manufacturing of Excavator buckets, reduce the rejection rate and to increase the throughput by applying the lean principles and lean, tools time study is carried out for all the process in manufacturing of excavator bucket. The process improvement is done for the process which has the high cycle time. Along with savings in time the research also helped in saving in labors. Pareto analysis is carried out in a paper to identify graphically which station is taking high amount of time. The lean principles are followed in this paper to eliminate the waste in an industry. The implementation procedure is discussed for this Realtime project. The feasibility and the significance of lean production are discussed and the results are also shown.

Keywords: Lead time, process improvement, production rate, productivity improvement, Time study, Process study.