Optimizing Efficiency and Safety in Industry: The Power of Industrial Engineering Techniques for Waste Identification and Productivity Improvement

Atharwa Kharkar; Varsha Karandikar; Himanshu Kurzekar; Arnav Hardas; Nilay Diwan; Ameya Panshikar; Gajanan Gambhire

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Optimizing Efficiency and Safety in Industry: The Power of Industrial Engineering Techniques for Waste Identification and Productivity Improvement

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Atharwa Kharkar¹, Varsha Karandikar¹^{, *}, Himanshu Kurzekar¹, Arnav Hardas¹, Nilay Diwan¹, Ameya Panshikar¹, Gajanan Gambhire¹

¹Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India

^*Corresponding author. Email: varsha.karandikar@vit.edu

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Varsha Karandikar

Available Online 9 November 2023.

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Keywords: Productivity Improvement; Waste Identification; Manpower Utilization; Safety; Optimization
Abstract: The present research aims to identify the critical issues of plant inefficiencies caused by plant wastes and safety issues. The study was conducted at a medium-scale cement refractory manufacturing special application cement. The research involved waste identification, waste analysis, and waste elimination solutions. The wastes were identified and segregated based on the 8 lean manufacturing wastes. The issues of worker safety have also been identified and documented. The analysis was performed on the man-machine utilization using the man-machine charts. This resulted in a reduction in the idle time of the operator by 32% and led to the optimization of the workforce. The types of waste have been analyzed and improvements in productivity, waste minimization, worker utilization, and worker safety solutions have been proposed. The study uncovers worker underutilization, which led to suggestions for improvement in working conditions and material handling processes to improve the overall plant's productivity and sustainability.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering (ICETE 2023)
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date: 9 November 2023
ISBN: 10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_118
ISSN: 2352-5401
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_118 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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