Production optimization in a hydraulic cylinder workshop

Abstract

Belautozap is a company located in Belarus that designs and manufactures hydraulic cylinders. Not until a while ago they were struggling after having made some wrong investments where their production took a toll. Now things are brighter and they are recovering and looking for solutions to increase their productivity.

This research work aimed to analyze the current state of production and to implement a method to increase the production volume of hydraulic cylinders. Most of the data used here came from reports, daily logs and from employee interviews. The data was then analyzed to find the bottlenecks in the production line and to start working on solutions to improve productivity.

This project revealed that the main problems in the company were workers who lacked motivation and were taking their tasks too lightly. Other than that, the degree of machine idling time was too high and it was possible to reduce it by rearranging the responsibilities on different people.

At the end of this project two solutions were implemented into Belautozapchast that led to an 18% increase in the production volume.