RAMP-UP OF SGM-25 (Sundaram Gear Reduction Motor)
Lucas TVS in their case study has presented their approach to increasing productivity by 100% in armature assembly of their starter motors due to a sudden increase in customer demand. Their approach consists of line balancing, improving MTTR and applying SMED principals to bottleneck machines, and reducing imbalance rejections during assembly. Wherever root cause was traced to supplier that too had to be tackled.
