Application of Lean Tools: Improvement of the Wooden Profiles Production Line at GM Profile Company رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

Due to economic globalization and the use of high-tech manufacturing machinery, many challenges have emerged and affected the manufacturing sector. In addition, there is a constant desire of customers to obtain high-quality products at affordable prices in short time or on time. Therefore, to fulfill the needs of customers, the manufacturing companies must have effective and efficient organizational structure that supports the running of the diverse processes without any major downtime or delays. Within the Palestinian manufacturing sector, and specifically within the wooden industry, a wooden company called GM Profile Wooden Company is considered as a case study. More specifically, it has no organizational structure; it encounters many inventories, maintenance, production, marketing problems among other in its operations and functions. Such problems result in losses, inefficiencies, frequent downtimes, poor quality, low productivity and, collectively, a serious threat in the sustainability of GM Company. The main purpose of this study is to implement various lean tools as a part of quality principles within the wooden manufacturing company called GM Profile Wooden Company, which need to reduce different type of waste detected in order to achieve high quality controls on procedures and system. Also, it aims to improving productively, quality of company products and systems efficiency as overall. Luckily, across the implementation of this study, many radical changes could be done in GM that improves the organizational development, increase delivery performance, promote inventory turnover and make a faster development VI Also, applying lean tools can increase the availability and reliability of machines in GM, decrease machine defects. It promotes customer satisfaction by preventing machines sudden shutdown and delays, improved supplier relations with the company and increase employee relationships among each other and their involvements which affect the business development and profits.