A Lean Manufacturing and RCM-Based Production Process Improvement Model for Increasing the Production Capacities of Carbonated Beverage Bottling Companies

Abstract

The beverage manufacturing industry is an extremely competitive sector. Small-and medium-sized businesses usually encounter order fulfillment issues and have high operating costs, negatively affecting their profitability. In this study, we consider a small soft drink production company to design an improvement model. The proposed design is based on the combination of lean manufacturing tools and other tools that may be required depending on the situation. In this sense, the proposed model is based on the 5S methodology, workstation redesigning, process standardization, and reliability-based maintenance. The implementation of the proposed design will increase the efficiency of the production process by 8.8%.