Lean Manufacturing to Improve Automotive Industry Productivity

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LEAN MANUFACTURING TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE AUTOMOTIVE
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ABSTRACT
This research first collects information on the principles of lean manufacturing and then assesses
the lean implementation level in the automotive industry so as to improve their productivity.
Lean manufacturing focuses on waste identification and elimination through continuous
improvement. Identification and measurement of best practices and the evaluation of the usage
level in the automotive industry are sufficient way through minimization and elimination of
waste. The major principles of lean manufacturing discussed in this paper which can be
implemented to the automotive company include functional expertise and stability, supplier-
customer relationship, continuous improvements, socialization, specified and simple pathways,
and standardization.

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Table of Contents
ABSTRACT.................................................................................................................. 2
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................... 4
LITERATURE REVIEW.................................................................................................. 4
Lean Implementation.............................................................................................. 6
Specified and Simple Pathways............................................................................7
Learning and Teaching......................................................................................... 8
Socialization......................................................................................................... 8
Continuous Improvement..................................................................................... 9
Customer-Supplier Relationship...........................................................................9
EVALUATION............................................................................................................. 10
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................ 13
BIBLIOGRAPHY.......................................................................................................... 14

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INTRODUCTION
Lean manufacturing is a systematic method of waste identification and elimination through
continuous improvements, product flow at the pull of the customer in chase of perfection. The
aim of this method is on the reduction of cost by the elimination of added activities of non-value
through the application of philosophy which aimed at identification and eradication of waste
from every stage in the automotive production chain respective of resources, motion, time, and
energy (Prakash, 2018). The major reason for improving the productivity of the automotive
industry through lean manufacturing is to maintain low production cost, maintain profit margins,
and optimize the resources used in automotive manufacturing.
This research seeks to assess and determine effective strategies of lean manufacturing that can be
applied to improve the productivity of the automotive industry, through system development
which is manageable easily such as visual control, operator density, and length of the assembly
line. Lean design is the improvement of layouts, tooling, equipment, and facilities continuously
which utilizes the best practices of lean manufacturing to attain the objective of improving the
productivity of the automotive industry (Fakhri, et al., 2012). The major research gap in this
study is that there is no research that has comprehensively illustrated the future impacts of lean
manufacturing in the automotive industry after waste elimination after waste reduction. Previous
researchers also failed to explain all the principles behind lean production.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Automotive industries have increasingly sought to optimize the resources required for the
production of automotive from the competition, so as to maintain their margins of profits. The
search for resources balance and balanced task distribution in different industrial environments is
referred to as balancing. The productivity of automotive production can be defined as the