Line Throughput Improvement in Beverage Production Line
Background
A leading beverage manufacturer had issues with improvement in production line throughput across 5 of their plants. Throughput was impacted by factors such as machine broke down, quality issues and losses due to model change over.
Solution
- Identification of constraints for increasing output across the plant based on data collection and Gemba audit
- Identify improvement projects and assign to teams with department heads a leaders
- Facilitate the improvement using continuous intervention of systematic tools for root cause analysis
- Review and facilitate the solution refinement
- Support the implementation of solutions
Results
Around 7% improvement in Line Throughput