Lean Approach to Enhance Manufacturing Productivity: A Case Study of Saudi Arabian Factory

Increase the efficiency of the production process of machines in textile and clothing companies through a model based on TPM and SMED

“…In order to verify the functionality of the model, scientific articles with similar or equal problems are presented in which opportunities for improvement were identified and the reduction of these times was achieved by making use of the techniques used in this model. In similar cases such as [4] and [17), downtime was reduced by 23% after applying TPM in conjunction with another lean tool. Also, in both cases of studies they are applied in medium-sized companies, but in other manufacturing sectors.…”

“…In [4], a similar case study, Lean tools were used that managed to increase the OEE indicator by 15%. The OEE is a basic maintenance indicator, which will help measure the efficiency of equipment at the beginning and end of implementation.…”

“…Waste such as high unplanned downtime as well as high machine preparation times affect the efficiency of the production line and can bring significant losses for a manufacturing company. Many companies take care of their machinery by adopting Lean Manufacturing strategies, since in a study it is proposed to solve the unplanned downtime due to failure and breakdown, implementing the planned maintenance pillar of the TPM in the press machines of a company located in Ludhiana managing to increase the average production of machines by 15.63% as well as reducing the average machine downtime by 23.14% and increasing the OEE by 17.08% [4]. In another investigation, the high set up times of a footwear company using SMED were solved, reducing the average set up time by 60%, generating savings of up to $40,000 per year for these reduced times and increasing production capacity by 3% [5].…”

Proposta de melhorias no processo de produção de uma panificadora a partir de ferramentas do lean manufacturing

“…Desde então, sua aplicação tem sido empregada em diversas pesquisas, como na identificação e eliminação dos desperdícios a partir da aplicação de ferramentas lean (Braglia et al, 2020;Purushothaman et al, 2020), na melhora na produtividade total da organização (Ur Rehman et al, 2020), na análise de tempo de processamento e capacidade de produção (Liu et al, 2020) e, ainda, indiretamente influenciando o aumento do lucro pela redução de custos .…”