Takt Time as an important tool for lean implementation: A case study of an auto industry.
Arvind Kumar Sharma CGC, landran Abstract-Takt Time is an important lean tool used to set the pace of manufacturing process which leads to the customer satisfaction. Takt time is mainly used to standardize the time for the completion of an operation. The case study was carried out in an auto parts industry. The spring pin section of the industry was facing the problem of on time delivery problem of the product which leads to the customer dissatisfaction. Takt time tool was implemented to overcome this problem. Takt time was calculated. One operation’s cycle time was above the takt time. To keep the cycle time of operation under the takt time, some improvements were suggested in order to product to be completed within required time. Before state and after state were compared and resulted into, 10% reduction in the total processing time, 17% reduction in total number of workforce.