Divyesh Prakash Trivedi

Dr. B. B. Ahu

Dr. N. R. Rajhans

Abstract

In the fast growing and competitive market, plastic parts manufacturing companies want to produce large numbers of parts of high quality with great accuracy andwith minimum time.When it comes to assembly of plastic parts in small-scalecompanies, there are certain factors that lead to lower productivity rates such as poor scheduling of machines. Hence, proper scheduling and optimization methods are needed to achieve high productivity and quality.The objective of this paper isto understanda plastic tap manufacturing process in detail, carry out an in-depth study of all the factors affecting the manufacturing process and formulate an optimizedmodel to reduce per unit production time and cost. The work is performed in collaboration with Paras Industries, a small-scale Mumbai based manufacturing company to properly schedule their job time and minimize per unit production time and cost.

Keywords- Manufacturing, Productivity, Project Management, Process Scheduling