Minimize the Maintenance Factors and Improving the Production Rate a Lean Based Industry

Abstract

In today’s competitive manufacturing environment every organization is heading to increase
its overall production by decreasing actions which consume unnecessary time and not
contribute any significance value to manufacturing processes. Increase in overall production
can be effectively achieved by means of reducing non value added activities involved in the
production process. These encourage focus on lean manufacturing and purpose to increase
equipment capacity and capability. One of the essential lean assembling instruments that can
give distinctive measurement in distinguishing and dissecting non esteem included exercises
is Value Stream Mapping (VSM). Value stream map presents a good picture of the time
consumed and operations performed for the production of a product within manufacturing
facility. Value Stream Maintenance Map (VSSM) clearly shows maintenance factor like
equipment effectiveness, mean maintenance lead time. These maintenance factors play an
important role in machines availability for production. Value Stream Maintenance Map helps
industries to recognize the present maintenance condition in order to reduce the consumption
of time. In this research work, a method is proposed for evaluating the breakdown
maintenance factor using a value stream maintenance map (VSMM) enabling theassessment
of measurable maintenance factors. The purpose of thesis is to propose a method which
shows breakdown maintenance factors and matrices by using value stream maintenance map.
The benefit of Current value stream map and valuestream maintenance map is to focus on the
entire value stream of plant to find system wastes and gives idea to eliminate them.