Identification of high impact lean production tools in automobile industries using weighted average method

Abstract

Lean plays a major role in the industrial environment. It is a set of techniques that are used in the day to day activities of the automobile industries. More than 30 lean tools are used in the regular schedule of the production environment. Each type of organization uses a particular type of lean tool for a particular problem to achieve optimum production. In order to find the most influential lean tools based on the ranking, a survey has been conducted in 91 automobile industries. The survey is based on the 5 point likerts scale to find the highly impacted lean tools. The survey results show that around 5 tools out of 30 are highly effective. Hence, these works mainly focus on ranking of lean tools, its positive impact towards the automobile industries. It also focuses on the flexibility of tools and how these lean tools can be effectively utilized for the increase in the production rate of the manufacturing industries.