LEAN PHILOSOPHY: IMPLEMENTATION IN AUTOMOBILE COMPANY.

Lean manufacturing system works in every part of the value stream by reducing waste in order to reduce lead time, cost, brings in more sales, and remain competitive in a growing global market. This research focuses the implementation of lean philosophy in automobile company with emphasis on arrangement of resources. In the present work the use of Lean manufacturing is to generate strategies to eliminate waste on the shop floor. The Lean manufacturing tools such as Kaizen were employed to reduce the waste. This paper describes a case study considering changeover time and reliability as a performance measures to improve the flow of production. Finally, the results obtained show the improvement in the shop floor region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]