Productivity Improvement
Quality Rejections reduced by 75% of a Rubber Company
Indian SMEs in rubber industry face some of the world’s most complex business and technology challenges. Major challenges are Maintaining Quality, Trained Labour, and Increasing Customer Base etc. The Company was facing similar issues and approached AcVe for improving the current plant operations. The objective was to conduct detailed diagnosis of current plant activities and implementing required systems and processes.
AcVe divided the plant into following 5 zones and initiated implementation:
- Mixing
- Moulding
- Quality Check
- Dispatch
- HR and Admin
Industry
Year
2018
Pain Points.
1
Quality Rejections
2
Safety and Housekeeping
3
Absence of Standard Mixing Formulations
4
Labour Issues (IR)
5
Internal Review Systems
Solutions.
1
Changes in the Plant Layout
2
Quality Checks at every stage
3
Time Measurement of Plant Activities
4
Training sessions for Production Labour
5
Revamping Raw Material Section
6
Lean automation such as Trolleys, Automated Weighing Scale etc.
7
Standard set for Mixing Formulations with the help of Rubber Expert.
8
Employee Engagement Activities
9
Safety Equipment for Staff
10
Internal Reporting Mechanism
Impact.
1
75% Reduction in Quality Rejections
2
Motivated Work force
3
Faster Decision Making
4
Systematic Plant Operations
5
Improvement in profitability because of better formulations
