The primary objective of this research is to find the main reasons of production wastage and recommend corresponding remedies to counter the wastage reasons. | Production lessening analysis of manufacturing unit in India Lean Six Sigma perspective Journal of Project Management 4 2019 281 290 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Journal of Project Management homepage Production lessening analysis of manufacturing unit in India Lean Six Sigma perspective Pankaj Kumara Mahipal Singha and Gurpreet Singh Phulla a School of Mechanical Engineering Lovely Professional University Punjab India CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Lean Six Sigma is systematic and excellent operation management approach aimed to en- Received March 8 2019 hance overall production through the elimination of waste and improve customer satisfac- Received in revised format tion. In the present case study automobile part manufacturing unit has been selected and April 2 2019 found 22 wastage in manufacturing steps resulting reduction in production. The primary Accepted April 2 2019 Available online objective of this research is to find the main reasons of production wastage and recommend April 4 2019 corresponding remedies to counter the wastage reasons. For this purpose Lean Six Sigma Keywords approach with the help of DMAIC methodology is implemented to observe and examine Lean Six Sigma different root causes of the frame lugs production losses and rejection problems. The result DMAIC reveals that the movement of material and employee are critical issues for wastage of re- Cause and Effect Diagram sources ultimately affecting production of industry. Lastly the possible solutions are to be Automotive manufacturing in- advised to tackling these issues. The successful execution of the proposed solutions show dustry 7 growth in the production of the component which saves annually INR 15 64 056. 2019 by the authors licensee Growing Science Canada. 1. Introduction Manufacturing industries play an important role in strengthening India s economy Singla et al. 2019 . Many countries of the world are promoting their manufacturing sectors
