Impact of Lean Manufacturing on Improving Productivity of Auto Components Manufacturing Industry

The purpose of this paper is to develop an operationalized model, which can be used to access the changes taking place in an effort to introduce lean manufacturing system. We limited ourselves to the factors that concern the work organization in the manufacturing part of the company in order to develop an operational model of lean production. To bring the single piece flow assembly system, we have applied the principles of ergonomics, plant layout, and time study in this paper. These different principles have been elaborated using available theory behind the lean production system. The production system concept of process flow, plant layout, material flow, ergonomics and work place organization were integrated as a whole system in the plant. With the adaptation of above stated concepts, the assembly line became lean and also the productivity of the assembly line is comparably increased with the existing assembly system by 167%.