KARTLÄGGNING OCH REDUCERING AV FÖRLUSTER I EN PRODUKTION UTIFRÅN LEAN

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to investigate the presence of losses in a production department. Based on this analysis, improvements and suggestions that meet the performance requirements set by the company on the department’s planed cycle time. With this purpose in mind, two questions have been raised. These are the questions: 1. What losses can be identified in the department? 2. How can these identified losses in the department be reduced? A case study has been performed on a producing company, where the production has been observed and staff from the department has been interviewed for increased insight into the situation. The data presented has been analyzed in relation to the theoretical framework set up to achieve the results of the study. The result shows how the presence of losses in a production can be connected to production planning and batch size. These connections have in this study support in Lean production and its three M. Losses associated with waste were also found, such as movement, transport and waiting. In this study, there was only focus on one case company. The case company is a producing company, the department that the study focuses on produces a compressor product. The study does not take into account the production design or requirements beyond what is relevant for designing the improvement proposals.