Implementation of Lean Production system in the wood working production lines & its effect on product price & quality

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The Higher Institute for Applied Arts - 6th of October City

Abstract

The searcher noticed the high prices for the wooden products in the last years due to
the continuous upraise of the raw materials prices used in the wooden manufacturing in the
local market due to the currency rates exchange & also due to the high salaries of the
technical labors,
this issue pushes the searcher to study through several production ways applied in
different manufacturing & especially the wood working manufacturing.
In this paper we will study the effect of the change of the traditional production lines
to production lines using the Lean Production system which leads to less process waste,
reduced inventory, less work time & high quality product.
The research have been applied on the change of a traditional line for flush doors to a
lean production line system for the quantity of 100 doors on an ongoing project, which leads
to a reduction of 25%
of the labors cost loaded on these products, collapsed the time of the products in the
production line to reduce the indirect cost loaded to the products with 5% less & also increase
the quality of the final product by 25% , the whole results leads to decrease the total selling
price of the final product with 13% that is to compensate the upraise of the raw material
price, also make the product able to compete in the market with a high quality products.

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