Lean manufacturing system consulting for the Tianjin plant of a French dairy products group
Project Background
A wholly-owned factory invested by a French multinational group company in the Tianjin Binhai Development Zone in 1997, with 12 series and over 50 varieties of cheese products. In order to increase production capacity to meet increased market demand. The corporate group decided to start the lean manufacturing project aimed at to improve product quality, machine and labor efficiency, speed up inventory turn and reduced the total production lead time.
Consulting content
- Value stream mapping and Kaizen events
- Key performance measurement system update
- Production lines balance and layout optimization
- Level Scheduling and planning process improvement
- Quick changeover
- First-time quality management
- Workplace 5S and zoning
- Machine autonomous maintenance and preventive maintenance, Low-cost automation transformation
- Information flow optimization, Material pull system, Implementation of continuous flow production,
- Lean daily management model, etc.
Effect and Benefit
The first passed rate improved by 10%,
The production efficiency of the selected assembly lines increased by 15%, among which the packaging workshop saved 50% of the area.
And the production capacity increased by 30% without additional investment.
The management team (including front-line leaders) was well trained, and 5S, Zoning and visual management has been implemented strictly in the place.
Lean manufacturing system has been well set up, starting from the second year, the company's products were sold far beyond the domestic market and were available in almost all major supermarkets in China.
