What is lean manufacturing? & How do I adopt lean methodology is the burning question for every enthusiast in manufacturing technology.
Lean manufacturing has been a best practice across the globe in the manufacturing process.
Lean production systems and lean manufacturing principles are adopted by all the world class manufacturing companies. Canning and bottling lines are extremely complex and difficult processes to manage, as they consistently run at very high speeds, where a minor stoppage can have a big impact on performance and costs to the business. The difficulty in creating an optimal packaging line design that would maximize production and efficiency is greatly amplified when there are many different packaging formats together with frequent changeovers. With packaging lines costing crores of rupees, an increasingly competitive market for contract packaging and demand for multi-variety packs, there is a clear need to maximize return by ensuring the equipment is being fully utilized to maximize return. Therefore, when designing packaging lines, it is necessary to have some means of predicting and explaining their performance and identifying the influence of the key line parameters such as, SKU complexity, machine capacities and their acceleration, running speed and deceleration parameters, conveyor speed and their lengths, failure rates in MTBF and repair rates in MTTR.
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