Implementing Lean Techniques on the Shop Floor Improvement of a Delivery Company

Abstract:

CTC Express is the leading domestic company in delivery service and wants to improve their business efficiency by establishing lean management in the shop floor activities. Lean management is generally adopted by the manufacturing industries as a significant technique to reduce waste and operation costs. This paper investigates the continuous improvement through value stream mapping, begins with describing the current situation and proposes the future condition. Several improvements were implemented in the company such as the transformation of automation process, better result in visual control and standardization processes. The new proposed system has shown being able to reduce the works of loading/unloading and in the same time to increase the performance of material handling in each cycle time.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 989-994)
• Pages: 2811-2814
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.989-994.2811
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Jason Shay*, Peter Iming Shieh
• Keywords: Automation Process, Cellular Layout, Current State Map, Future State Map, Hub Centers, Lean Management Techniques, Packages Flow, Value Stream Mapping, Waste

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