Abstract:
Small scale industries play an important role in the Indian economy. After agriculture,
it has emerged as a powerful tool in providing relatively large employment.
The objective of this thesis is to improve the productivity of a company using systematic
layout planning and to increase organizational performance by monitoring
5S strategies in a forging company named as Magmachino forge Pvt. Ltd. located
in Thane-Maharashtra, which is popular in manufacturing and exporting precision
machined components. The major problems faced by the company is a poor utilization
of space, poor material handling, and poor time management, due to lack of
following the principles of 5S and effective plant layout. There is a real need for
empirical studies in the field of the new management system and their impact on a
company.
In this report, we provide a detail definition of 5S and plant layout; and listed
efficient utilization of resources, manufacturing and maintenance ease, enhanced
productivity, effective utilization of space, material and time, as well as the increase
in efficiency and overall cost. In this report an alternate layout is proposed using
activity relationship chart which involves transferring the departments which have
high interrelationship close to each other and flow of material, But this does not help
in tackling the problems faced by the company due to which we have monitored
and implemented 5S technique as it plays an important role in continuous improvement
in today’s organization. Surveying method is used for data collection which
is done by distributing a questionnaire among the workers and owner. The result
shows after implementation of 5S it improves organizational performance in day to
day working environment and proposing layout results in smooth material flow, efficient
utilization of floor area and increase in the area which can be used for more
products simultaneously. The final evaluation results show after applying 5S and
plant layout strategies, it improves the overall efficiency of the company and cost
per manufacturing of a product piece.
Keywords: Organizational performance, Utilization, surveying.
