A Study On Production Line Improvement Of A Company’s Household Cleaning Products

After the financial crisis in2008, a weak demand happened in oversea market. Meanwhile, the profit of Chinese enterprise reduced very much as appreciation of the RMB, increasing labor cost, rising material price and high tax&fee from the government. There’s a big challenge for the Chinese manufacturing enterprise which key business rely on export. This thesis uses DMAIC, that is Define/Measure/Analyze/Improve/Control) in study. This thesis finds and reduces the waste existed in the process by use of7wastes, rebalances the production line by one piece flow, connects the3broken and separated processes,eliminates and shortens the delivery time. At the same time, Takt Time is used to balance the capability of different work position in the production line. After the above lean improvement, some key performance indicators are improved obviously. Besides, this improvement activity brought a huge benefit. The success of the improvement made a solid foundation for A company to expand and deepen lean manufacturing. The change could be realized from the traditional production to lean manufacturing in A company.