LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT BY WORK STUDY TOOLS OF FIBER COMPOSITE COMPANY

Amol Nayakappa Patil, M Prabhakaran

Abstract: Market trends and consumer requirements get modernize in relatively fast comportment. Globalization developed trade opportunities to fulfill consumer needs, but along also resulted in competition, improved quality and increased productivity. The quality and quantity is being realized by changing conventional manufacturing to automated manufacturing with minimum labour supervision, which is more feasible for large industries and MNCs. But, SMEs backbone of country economy cannot afford for radical process changes as it requires huge investment. The paper aims to demonstrate application of work study tools in small fiber composite company. The research has been carried out at fiber composite company manufacturing swimming pool filter. The simple work study tools are used to study process layout, cycle time and distance travelled during manufacturing. The idle time is been identified along with the distance travelled; accordingly process layout modification is suggested based on the economic analysis which gives indicative measure of profit leading to increase in productive rate.

Keywords: SMEs, Labour Productivity, Work Study, Process Chart, Multi Activity Chart, Travel Chart, Fiber Composites, Cycle Time

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0509054