Application of Lean Manufacturing System: a Case Study of Control Cable Manufacturing

Abstract

This paper proposes the application of lean manufacturing system to improve the efficiency and reduce the wastes in the control cable process in the automotive industry. With the improvement of the bottleneck process and the balancing of the workflow of the process by considering the material flowchart, the process was improved and verified. The proposed workflow is developed based on the concept of lean manufacturing and the improvement in terms of more continuous flow can be achieved. As results indicated, the productivity of the studied process was increased by 33 percent and the waste was reduced to 0. In addition, the process inventory can be reduced to 0.