Use of Spaghetti Diagram for Identification and Elimination of Waste Movements in Shop Floor for OEE Improvement: A Case Study

Abstract

Business objectives are mainly, long term growth and profitability that can happen only by increasing in the productivity. Frequent machine breakdown, high changeover time, and high manufacturing cost are becoming great threat. The author's main aim to keep up the Research is to improve OEE to meet customer's increasing demands without addition of capacity thus meeting business goals. This document demonstrates the need to overcome most of bottleneck of equipment's unavailability for resources utilization and to run the process more effectively. Improvement in OEE was possible through reducing the changeovers and cycle time and developing the workforce culture align to the focused improvements. The outcome of this Research may expect to have marked improvement in productivity with best utilization of the capacity along with right quality product, at right time.