title: Improve the productivity of rubber bushings in a rubber moulding company by applying the Lean Principle
creator: Gopi Simathari, 
subject: TS Manufactures
description: The rubber moulding manufacturing businesses are facing problems to fulfil the  customer requirements and stay competitive with the global players in terms of cost,  quality and services. Some of the notable rubber moulding industries are unable to meet  the customer requirements in the aspect of delivery time and demand. One of the  reasons why most of the rubber moulding manufacturing companies are still unable to  implement lean manufacturing systems due to a lack of knowledge and information.  The drive for yearly cost savings from automotive customers has driven suppliers to  research ways to improve production efficiency and raise production. Companies are  continuously searching for new instruments to optimise manufacturing processes,  which provide considerable increases in productivity, savings and customer  satisfaction. This study aims to reduce waste and increase the productivity of the rubber  moulding manufacturing process by using the Lean principles, which can help identify  waste from information flow, material flow, and process flow. In this study, lean  principles with the support of the Ishikawa Diagram were able to find the highest  cessation process that contributed to non-value-added activities in rubber production.  Finishing processes, which have the highest process steps selected for improvement  study. The study shows that productivity increased by implementing the cellular  manufacturing principles. A complete process step can be reduced from 22.5 hours to  0.5 hours in the Finishing process. (Abstract by author)
date: 2021
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
identifier: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1538/1/library-document-1538.pdf
identifier:   Gopi Simathari,   (2021) Improve the productivity of rubber bushings in a rubber moulding company by applying the Lean Principle.  Masters thesis,  Open University Malaysia.   
relation: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1538/