Improvement in Material feeding system Through Introducing Kitting Concept in Lean Environment of MSME: A Review Study

  Jimesh M. Gajjar,  Prof. Hemant R. Thakkar

This paper focus on the material feeding principle of kitting within in-plant material supply in mass customized assembly. With this principle, parts are delivered and presented to the assembly operations in pre-sorted kits, with each kit containing parts for one assembly object. Today many Industries are categorized by end customer demand for wide variety of products. Moreover, a large number of product variants has implications on the material flows with in the assembly plants. This require the small lot size delivery to support the production line. Since, continuous material feeding system resulted in increased inventory value, operator walk and search time, an attempt to increase production throughput is made. This research is done on the base of studying existing continuous supply material feeding system & its effect on production hindering volume growth. To eliminate certain waste, the alternative material feeding systems have been explored through literature. As per the author’s point of view, lean kitting supply system resulted in reduction of line side storage space, inventory value, operator walk time, line side replenishment & overall lead time.

Keywords- Material feeding, kitting, continuous supply, inventory value, lean environment, MSME

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1401161
Page Number(s) - 891-900
Pubished in - Volume 2 | Issue 1 | March 2014
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Jimesh M. Gajjar,  Prof. Hemant R. Thakkar,   "Improvement in Material feeding system Through Introducing Kitting Concept in Lean Environment of MSME: A Review Study", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.2, Issue 1, pp.891-900, March 2014, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1401161.pdf