Process improvement by cycle time reduction through Lean Methodology

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In present world, every customer needs their products to get on time with good quality. Presently every industry is striving to satisfy their customer requirements. An aviation concern trying to accomplish continuous improvement in all its projects. In this project the maintenance service for the customer is analyzed. The maintenance part service is split up into four levels. Out of it, three levels are done in service shops and the fourth level falls under customer's privilege to change the parts in their aircraft engines at their location. An enhancement for electronics initial provisioning (eIP) is done for fourth level. Customers request service shops to get their requirements through Recommended Spare Parts List (RSPL) by eIP. To complete this RSPL for one customer, it takes 61.5 hours as a cycle time which is very high. By mapping current state VSM and takt time, future state improvement can be done in order to reduce cycle time using Lean tools such as Poke-Yoke, Jidoka, 5S, Muda etc.,

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Siva, R., Naveed Khan Patan, M., Lakshmi Pavan Kumar, M., Purusothaman, M., Pitchai, S. A., & Jegathish, Y. (2017). Process improvement by cycle time reduction through Lean Methodology. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 197). Institute of Physics Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/197/1/012064

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