Plant output improvement for Air-conditioner Manufacturer
Background
An air conditioner manufacturer wasn’t able to increase its plant output in spite of doubling its labor and moving to three shift production. As a result, they were not able to meet the market demand for their products.
Solution
- Identification of constraints for increasing output across the plant based on data collection and Gemba audit
- Establishment of single piece flow
- Line balancing
- Automation of final product testing
- Introduction of Kanban for material supply to production line
Results
7 fold improvement plant output of air conditioners
