Abstract:
Thousands of small & medium scale industries are present in India. All are facing
certain problems resulting in lack of productivity, greater processing time etc. The
basis definition of Kaizen philosophy & a brief review of kaizen concept & its implementation.
The purpose is to represent Kaizen, its related terms in a concrete way &
its implementation in improving the overall effectiveness of small scale organization
situated in India. This illustrate about kaizen implementation in small manufacturing
industry & also focuses on the scenario of Indian manufacturing company while
implementing Kaizen. This also reviews that it basically focuses on implementation
of kaizen technique in small manufacturing companies. For detail justification of
project conducted in the small manufacturing company who is dealing with manufacturing
of Stainless Steel products. The company is currently facing the problem
of increased lead time . In order to solve the faced problem we emphasize on two
major alternatives & select Kaizen as a main productivity improvement tool. This
implementation is focuses on reducing the lead time of sales order processing by
mean of which the productivity of organization will be improved.
Keywords: kaizen, lead time, steel products.
