Analysis on Wastages in the Automobile Rubber Components Manufacturing Industry

Abstract:

Small scale industries are the back bone of our nation’s economy; they are major contributor to large scale industries, in particular the automobile field. It is essential that these industries must run to their fullest efficiency, and utilize inputs such as Material, Labour and other resources effectively. But the small scale industries are not aware about the wastages present in the industry. These wastages reduce the efficiency of the industry. The wastages can be present in any form like production waste, man power waste, material waste etc. This paper mainly focuses on basic work of identification of wastages presents in automobile rubber components manufacturing industry. These techniques are called the Lean technique. Generally, seven types of wastages are available. This paper, aims to identify the wastages present in the various units of the industry, and to carry out the cause and effects analysis on wastages, also possible remedies were suggested

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 592-594)
• Pages: 2577-2582
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.592-594.2577
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: K. Balaji*, S. Deepak Kumar, V.S. Senthil Kumar
• Keywords: Cause Analysis, Effect Analysis, Lean Technique, Wastages Identification

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