Adhering to the tenets of Lean Manufacturing we have been able to generate excellent results that translate into bottom-line profits. We have developed a lean way of thinking by implementing various lean tools like: TPM, SMED, Value Stream Mapping, Line balancing, FMEA and 5S.
The goal of Lean Manufacturing at UCAL is to essentially connect the entire value stream and eliminate all forms of waste.
Producing defect free products from defect free equipments making the manufacturing system highly reliable and flexible.
This strengthens and enhances plant’s ability to produce to the customers’ needs, consistently.Total Employee Involvement results in cost reduction in overall manufacturing which would in turn satisfy the customers’ requirements
S. No | Parameters | Targets |
P | Output per hour per man | > 30% |
Downtime | Zero | |
Q | In-house Rejection | 80% Down |
Customer Complaints | Zero | |
C | Manufacturing cost | 30% Down |
Inventory | 30% Down | |
D | Delivery Adherence | 100% |
S | Accidents | Zero |
M | Kaizen / Employee | 2/Month |
Total Employee Involvement | 100% |
Value-stream maps are the prototypes for lean transformations. At UCAL , we use VSM technique to identify and eliminate waste thereby streamlining work processes. The steps that we follow in implementing the VSM are:
In this intensely competitive market, there is always a need to provide customers with diversified products of very high Quality while reducing the manufacturing cost at the same time. At Ucal, SMED has been consistently proven to be the key to meet this extremely challenging demand as it reduces waste, time spent between each production runs as well as the size of production lots and inventory.