IMPLEMENTING LEAN MANUFACTURING IN FMCG TO REDUCE WASTE

Abstract

Applicable lean tools have been used in this report. In this report, in various faster growing industries like FMCG, pharmaceuticals; hospitality, manufacturing etc are used. Value stream mapping is the tool with priority over others in identifying the waste . It is a lean tool which helps to translate both information and flow of data through which those processes that are not adding any positive value in our study can be easily eliminated.. This report is an effective effort to find out the waste production during manufacturing of a perishable goods in discrete manufacturing system. To categories the factors that are responsible for the 80 percent of waste , the Pareto chart has been used . Here a vital role is played by Ishikawa diagram for finding of their possible causes and effect. Kanban, Kaizen, and FIFO are the other contemporary lean tools used for future state map processing. Through the future state value stream map the result obtained states the changeover time of various processes, the cycle time near to the takt time, improvement in lead time and total cycle time of the manufacturing process.