Identification of Major Lean Production Waste in Indian Automobile Industries

  Kiran Ashok Rayate,  Dr. H. P. Khairnar

Elimination of Industrial muda (waste) is major dispute faced by the Indian Automobile Industry’s experts in daily production activities. Most of firms have eight types of industrial muda namely Waiting Time in processes, Transportation of raw material, Unnecessary Motion of products, Over Production, Over Processing, Improper inventory management, Defects in finished goods and Lack of knowledge. Every industry faces particular waste that occurs in their production activities. To find out the major contributing lean waste, a survey of 77 automobile industries in India is done and ranking is given based on average of the responses received from the industry. The respondent were asked to rank in order the major productivity loss by various lean waste to find highly impacted lean muda in Indian Automobile Industries. Based on the results transportation is major muda and over processing is minor muda. This study also discusses ways to eliminate these muda.

Keywords- Inventory, Lean Waste, Muda, Over Processing.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1802150
Page Number(s) - 812-819
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 2 | June 2018
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Kiran Ashok Rayate,  Dr. H. P. Khairnar,   "Identification of Major Lean Production Waste in Indian Automobile Industries", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 2, pp.812-819, June 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1802150.pdf