SMED Implementation at JK Tyres, Chennai

SMED Implementation at JK Tyres, Chennai How to implement SMED in 3 days? Step By step approach in implementing Quick Change-over Introduction: We have conducted a 3-day workshop on SMED at JK Tyres, Chennai plant  in 2018, focusing on the bottleneck machine’s change overtime reduction. The bottleneck machine was identified and the current change-over-time was […]

5S Implementation at Greenpanel Industries Ltd.

5S Implementation at Greenpanel Industries Ltd. Introduction:  We have started working with Greenpanel – One of India’s largest Wood products manufacturer in their srikalahasthi unit in implementing 5S in the unit. Being a new unit, there were no initiatives on 5S. Before State: 5S was not practiced in the company. No specific location for each […]

PokaYoke Implementation at Amaron Batteries Ltd.

PokaYoke Implementation at Amararaja Batteries Ltd. Introduction: Amararaja Industries Ltd is one of India’s largest Battery Manufacturing companies.We have worked with Amararaja in implementing Quick changeover and PokaYoke Projects Training: We started with a full day training program on SMED and PokaYoke. Implementation: We created teams to implement the Quick Changeover and PokaYoke. Teams have […]

A Complete guide to Lean Manufacturing – Blog series #6/52

MUDA - Non Value Adding (NVA)

Muda, Mura & Muri  As a part of the Weekly Lean blog series we have learned about the What is Work & Wastes according to Lean Manufacturing in last week’s blog, this week we will learn about the Lean Wastes/ 3M’s(MUDA, MURA & MURI). What are the Lean Wastes In Lean manufacturing, Wastes are categorized […]