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- Title
A VALUE STREAM MAPPING IMPLEMENTATION: A CASE of TEXTILE INDUSTRY.
- Authors
GÜZEL, Dilşad; KABAKUŞ, Ahmet Kamil; ŞİRİN, Muhammed Sabri
- Abstract
Lean manufacturing is a production strategy that has been used since 1950's. The main concern of this strategy is to determine resource of waste and try to eliminate waste. Companies do not only eliminate waste but also they try to keep their competitiveness as high as their competitors. Lean manufacturing has some tools such as Value Stream Mapping, Kanban, Kaizen, 5s, CONWIP etc. to imply over the production system to enhance its effectiveness. The aim of this paper is to apply Value Stream Mapping to improve production line of a textile company through a case study. Value stream mapping (VSM) is one of the most used lean manufacturing technique for illustrating and analyzing the logic of a production process and it provides companies to monitor all production line systematically. Value stream mapping is a projection of the flow of components and materials through a supply chain in an organization as well as the flow of information. The main idea of VSM is to control the system as a whole. In this paper, VSM was used to demonstrate the present production line and imply lean techniques. Selected company is a textile producer which exports their products from Istanbul to European countries. 5S principles were applied to reduce lead times and to increase productivity. Final results show that Production Lead Time (PLT) decreased 14.5 days to 5.2 days by applying lean techniques.
- Subjects
TEXTILE industry; VALUE stream mapping; PRODUCTION (Economic theory); WASTE management; LEAN management
- Publication
Ataturk University Journal of Economics & Administrative Sciences, 2018, Vol 32, Issue 3, p763
- ISSN
1300-4646
- Publication type
Article