Prof. Ravi Nagaich

Dr. Apratul Chandra Shukla

Rishabh Mishra

Abstract

Productivity improvement is an important aspect for any organization to survive and to achieve competitive edge. This study deals with improving the productivity in an automobile industry. In the case organization the production department has some non value adding procedures which result in increasing the delay period and cause extra effort by the workers and therefore leads to high cost of the product. The purpose of this study is to identify improvement area inside the production department for enabling the industry to increase its productivity. Identified areas were analysed using method study principles. Improvement has been achieved through reducing travel time by locating new space for the off-loading site near the production department and also by simplifying and combining the two processes involved in the activity of modifying the processes. Increase in productivity and commensurate increase in the profit is calculated and it is observed that improvement is significant.

Keywords- Productivity, Auto Industry, Method Study, Material Handling Equipments.