Track: Lean

Abstract

The Service Mold company examined in this study is leading aerospace parts manufacturing industry located in Windsor, Ontario. The company demanded a new plant layout for the better material movement to improve the actual productivity by eradicating all the wastes in the process with the help of lean tools. In this paper, the authors analyzed old layout which was in random shape and identified non-value added material movements. Authors prepared a new layout based on the present scenario from random layout to U shape layout by utilizing cellular manufacturing to minimize the travel distance of both employees and material. Tools like 5W1H, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Cause and Effect Diagram and 5Why are used to find the root cause of the current obstacles. And Kaizen tool was used with Pareto chart to identify the primary reason for the problem.  The future layout is expected to have better productivity in the company.