Improving throughput time on motorcycle engine assembly plant

Abstract

This research describes an approach that can improving throughput time on motorcycle manufacturing engine assembly plant. Nowadays, the motorcycle industries facing challenge on how to improve throughput time in engine assembly line. They are a few reasons why this happen. Some improvement and modification are done in order to improve throughput time. Reducing throughput time will give a lot of benefits to company including lower inventory, reduced costs, improved product quality (process problems can be found more quickly), faster response to customer orders, and increased flexibility. In addition, a shorter throughput time means that the first batch of finished goods will reach the customers sooner, which helps reduce the time-to-market. For this study, the throughput time on engine assembly line will be investigated and each station will be analyzed to determine bottleneck. Time taken of each worker will be record and average of each time taken will be analyzed to determine the root cause of the problem. The technique of this experiment will include of tools and philosophy that will discuss in chapter 2. To progress my project, I have choose one of the top motorcycle manufacturing industry in Malaysia as my project