Performance Analysis and Improvement of Production Control Logistics Operations of Automotive Manufacturing Company using Lean Principles

Abstract

The objective was to study the plant layout of production control logistics of Automotive component manufacturing company, based on lean, plant layout and material handling principles for safe layout planning, effective utilization of the space, time and labour. In this study a detailed analysis of plant layout, flow of raw material, sorting process of raw materials, number of material handlings and stock details of raw material has been investigated. By considering the principles of plant layout and constraints of system, the new plant has been designed and compared with the present layout. The designed layout leads to easy flow of raw materials (uni-directional material flow), reduced number of material handlings, potential utilization of production control logistics area and time saving and labour saving in the company.