S.R. Tamilmaran
Prof. K. Manikanda Prasath
Abstract
This paper is based on enhancing the productivity of paint shop through overall equipment effectiveness with the help of lean manufacturing tool in construction equipment industry. The construction equipment industry is specialize in producing Backhoe Loaders, Smart Loaders, and Skid Steers etc. In today’s competitive environment the most recommended things in an organization is quality and efficiency. These two parameters depends upon the utilization of equipment in the industry. It is very much important for an organization to keep track of, and improve the production performance of their production systems. Some of the production failures are improper maintenance, machine breakdown, non-availability of items, equipment performance, part rejections etc. Lean manufacturing tool identifies the waste and eliminate it from the manufacturing processes. Overall equipment effectiveness calculation is one of the way to improve the performance. The project has been addressed in three situations namely Availability, Performance, Quality which quantifies the OEE. The investigation result shows that the Overall Equipment Effectiveness has been improved
Keywords- Construction Equipment Industry, Availability, Performance, Quality, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, Lean Manufacturing.