PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT OF LEATHER PRODUCTS INDUSTRY IN BANGLADESH USING LEAN TOOLS: A CASE STUDY
Journal Title: Revista de Pielărie Încălţăminte - Year 2018, Vol 18, Issue 3
Abstract
There is great potential for the leather industry in Bangladesh to become one of the country’s major foreign exchange earners, experts say. After readymade garments (RMG), productivity improvement can help to enrich profit of a leather products industry by minimizing excess work and developing a new method for particular operation. Nowadays, productivity improvement is a popular topic for any kinds of industry. Therefore, improving productivity is one of the main concerns of leather products industries. Lean manufacturing tools are most important tools that can help to increase productivity in leather products industry. In Bangladesh, few industries use these lean tools which can be proved as a real beneficial one. Hence, this study addresses the implementation of lean principles in a leather goods manufacturing industry in order to evaluate present process cycle efficiency (PCE), lead time and productivity prior to developing an improved strategy to bring the improved PCE, productivity and to reduce the lead time. By applying lean tools in the industry at the production line for bi-fold wallet, productivity has been improved by 85.42%. At the beginning state, the PCE was found 38.19% and after the implementation of lean tools, it would be 77.51% and lead time would also be reduced by 46.68% evaluated by takt time, bottleneck analysis, cause-effect analysis and Pareto analysis. The production flow was optimized by minimizing several non-value-added (NVD) activities such as bottlenecking, machine breakdown, queue time, waiting time, material handling time, etc.
Authors and Affiliations
Nadia Akter SWARNA, Md. Abu SAYID MIA
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP511087
- DOI 10.24264/lfj.18.3.7
- Views 129
- Downloads 0
CHARACTERISTICS OF POLYMER COMPOSITES BASED ON NATURAL RUBBER
This paper presents the obtaining and characterization of new types of polymeric composites based on natural rubber and plasticized starch, crosslinked using peroxide in the presence of a polyfunctional monomer - trimeth...
EFFECTS OF HIGH HEELS ON CENTRE OF PRESSURE PROGRESSION DURING WALKING IN YOUNG WOMEN
The purpose of this study was to discuss the differences in centre of pressure (COP) spatio-temporal progression during walking between barefoot condition and wearing high heels condition. The data were collected from 35...
Fatliquoring potentials of sulphonated Hura crepitans L. seed oil
Fatliquors are oil-in-water emulsions required in leather processing for the purpose of leather lubrication. They ensure that the collagenic fibres do not stick together on drying and as a consequence make the leather fl...
Methods used to manage defects related to vegetable tanned leather
Leather surface quality is vital when it comes to leather artifact production. Users of the locally produced vegetable tanned leather adopt various methods to manage and improve on the poor surface quality of leather pro...
STUDY ON PLANT GROWTH PROMOTER FROM PROTEINEOUS WASTES FROM LEATHER INDUSTRY
Tanneries generate huge quantities of solid wastes as fleshings. If these bio-waste materials are not utilized properly they are potential source of pollution. So in the present study it has been tried to convert these h...