Lead Time Reduction of Delivery by Root Cause Analysis

Major Goal of a company is to increase productivity and to reduce cost incurred. In this competitive market reducing lead time is one of the ways to have competitive edge. Often lead time reduction of 50 % can be achieved even with low cost, with short lead time one could increase market shares and could even charge high price for same service. Therefore the point which is to be looked is the process involved between order taking and delivery of finished goods. In this research the major focus is on process involved in manufacturing of cold rolled coil at JSW Steel which is required by automobile company and how one can reduce lead time by root cause analysis of small activities involved in processing in order to increase operation efficiency. In this paper a solution of changing scarfing method is proposed which saves time of 22 minutes per slab.