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Kumar Ashish | Kiran Kundaram |

Mayank Gautam | Harsh Mehta |
Rajasekhar Lekkala | M Vaisakh
Nambiar
Q. These people are experienced industrial engineers
who have put hundreds of products into production. Why
do they still experiment with new products that came
into the factory, shouldn't the choice be straight forward?

Ans. Takt Time is usually lesser than the

cycle time and it is difficult to achieve it,
hence manufacturers innovate and
experiment to reach that goal

Analysis of Process
Choices:
Q. Are there aspects of the site's operating
system that enable rapid change and
adaptation?

Ans. Manufacturing units can be reduced

with the new technological machine that
combines work of at least 2 units into 1.
e.g. Hit & Sieve machine in rice mills

Analysis of Process
Choices:
What
happened with The conveyor paced line was substituted
by non conveyor paced lie which led to
the conveyor- decrease in output

paced line?
What changes
when you plan a Automation is better than manual work.
With the manual paced line, the cycle
single long time may increase.
manually paced
line with 22 Also, it led to increase in stress

workers on it?
What happened when the
very long line was cut to two
short lines? Why did the
effective output rate, now
of two parallel short lines,
go up? How do you explain
this?
The effective output rate went up by
approximately 16%.
The shorter line and shorter takt time
reduced the stress, the variation and
hence the waste, which led to output
rate going up.

Why did the output go up so
much going to a U-shaped cell
process?
• Reduction in number of
operators implied reduced
costs
• Area become half, So two
lines can operate in same
space
• Cross-trained operators
balancing work among
themselves
1 Shift = 8 hours
9 workers
Takt Time Target = 15 seconds
Net Production= 960 units/line
Floor Area Covered= 616 sq.ft
 Employee Management system is
appreciable as increase in productivity
What is the impact led to the redundancy of the
on Employee workers/employees, but the company
doesn’t fire them.
Management
System? Shifts them to other assembly line or
other area where demand is high
Other questions,
improvements as
mentioned in the
case study
Thank You