Eliminating waste using lean tools and delmia quest simulation

Abstract

Manufacturing industries and servicing providers have successfully implemented lean tools during managing and controlling the activities. This study was carried out at pickle manufacturer one of Small Medium- sized Enterprise (SME) in Malaysia to reduce non-value added activities using some tools from time and motion study and Delmia Quest software. Solutions were suggested to reduce non-value added activities which yielded improvement of 24% and 36% in labor utilization and 25% in daily output.