Proposal for Gemba-Kaizen Implementation to Enhance Efficiency in the
Medium-Scale Bus Body Fabrication Industry 2023-01-5132
The basic needs of people are met by the building, fabric, and farming sectors.
In addition, the automobile industry significantly contributes to human mobility
and is essential to India’s economic expansion. There are numerous research
strategies available to improve the bus body building industries. Several
investigative approaches for enhancing bus body building industries are
available. However, several of these studies merely look at it from the
perspective of shop floor activity. Accordingly, when it comes to the execution
of process design approaches, there is little practical evidence for accepting
Gemba kaizen’s attitude. Hence, the purpose of this article is to present a
continuous improvement redesign framework tailored to a specific bus body
building industrial sector. The proposed model is structured after a critical
examination of Gemba and Kaizen. The results showed that by implementing the
improvement initiatives, the number of process activities decreased from 44 to
25 (of which 43% were wasteful), and the cycle time decreased from an average of
112 hours to 68 hours, or 39% faster. The outcomes also show how the suggested
model helped organizations reduce resource usage and enhance organizational
effectiveness.
Author(s):
S. Balakrishnan, K. Senthilkumar, V. Rajkumar, J. Jerold John Britto
Affiliated:
Francis Xavier College of Engineering, Department of Mechani, PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research, Department, Ramco Institue of Technology Rajapalayam
Pages: 8
Event:
International Conference on Trends in Automotive Parts Systems and Applications
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Quality control
Buses
Agricultural vehicles and equipment
Kaizen
Fabrication
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