Productivity improvement application in an automotive company

The specific topics covered in this study are on two main issues: time study and productivity in manufacturing industry. It is clear that the current productivity measure of the system must be defined at first in order to improve the productivity of any manufacturing system. There are several methods that have been used to measure the work, but only one of them can present observer the actual values: time study. Due to this, time study is selected as a way to measure the current and proposed production system among four formal work measurement techniques- predetermined time standards, standard elemental times, work sampling and stop-watch time study- By using the intuitional approach, current production system is analyzed and a new production system, which provides higher productivity, is proposed. The results are used to define the cycle times of the two production systems, and consequently the partial productivity is defined in terms of pieces produced by a worker per day.