Nowadays the foundations of a successful manufacturing are high productivity, quality, high added value, shorter delivery times and, as a result, customer satisfaction. Most of these foundations can be achieved by reducing wastes, for which we need to organize, think lean and implement lean production. Therefore, the company, which is designing and manufacturing measuring technology, wanted to reduce product assembly times and become leaner, which we tried to achieve by optimizing the workplace of the measuring instrument assembler by using 5S and MODAPTS method. The MODAPTS method is used in repetitive activities and enables faster and easier work, as it eliminates unnecessary movements, which relieves the worker and increases his productivity. The 5S method is aimed at organizing the workplace and consists of five steps: sort, set in order, shine, standardise and sustain. By optimizing the workplace, we have successfully shortened the time needed to assemble products and reduced the time lost in searching for tools and materials.
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