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Title: | Applying 5S Lean Methodology in Wasef Mutee Furniture Company رسالة ماجستير |
Authors: | Tannous, Luna Khamis Elias$AAUP$Palestinian |
Keywords: | Lean Management, Eight Wastes, 5S, Pareto Chart, Cause-and-Effect Diagram. |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Publisher: | AAUP |
Abstract: | With increasing market competition, rising customer quality awareness, the need for better efficiency, less variability, cost reduction, and quality improvements force managers to become keener on continuous improvement and adopt it as the norms of the organizational culture. In this context, lean management discipline is used to effectively and efficiently improve business processes via the effective combination of the different tools of lean. This research aims to implementing 5S methodology to reduce waste and improve the process at a Palestinian furniture industry: Wasef Mutee Furniture Company. Secondary data obtained via the compilation of relevant literature to establish the effectiveness of lean management, and examine through such literature the main lean implementation framework that manufacturing operations’ resembling that of the Palestinian furniture’s use towards the achievement of a value driven and waste free business process. The main challenges and obstacles encountered within the internal processes are identified through the collection of qualitative data, collected through ‘’field visits’’ of the facility in Ramallah. More specifically one specific value stream within the facility’s overall structure of departments (value streams) was selected as a pilot and built on the collected data to implement lean tools to identify and minimize incidental work and eliminate waste within the system where possible and as agreed by the facility owner. Subsequently, evaluation of the conducted interviews with the owner and several carpenters reveal that the main problem facing the company is the lack of space. Analysis of the collected data using the cause-and-effect diagram, Pareto chart, and eight wastes elimination V lean tools indicate that the main concerns are waste excess, plant layout, and the lack of an inventory control system. The implementation of lean management by the internal stakeholders significantly improved the production process at the company. Specifically the team has been able to minimize several types of wastes namely bottlenecks, excess employee movements, and surplus and obsolete inventory. In addition safety has been enhanced, and plant layout has been improved. Finally, the acquiring of a financial accounting software became apparent for sustaining the newly adopted warehousing managerial procedures. |
Description: | Master`s degree in Quality Management |
URI: | http://repository.aaup.edu/jspui/handle/123456789/2737 |
Appears in Collections: | Master Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations |
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