Ankit
Gems Pvt. Ltd. India, a
DTC Sightholder and a leading diamond Company is transforming itself into a
lean organization. Ankit Gems (www.ankitgems.com) employs more than 600 people at its state of
the art modern diamond manufacturing factories in India and Namibia. Having established
as a strong and recognized manufacturer, Ankit Gems wanted to challenge its
existing processes and bring further improvement in smooth flow of production,
maintenance of WIP inventory, production load balancing across some process
departments, inventory turnaround time and also explore the scope for
standardize action of process definitions/work practice guidelines. To improve
the processes further and move towards a high performance business, Ankit Gems
turned to RSM Astute Consulting (www.astuteconsulting.com) through participation in government sponsored lean
manufacturing programme.
As
part of implementation, a team was formed comprising of representatives from
various process departments. Training was imparted to the team about lean tools
including site tour of different industries having implemented lean tools
successfully. As part of 5S implementation, work area was re-organized so as to
facilitate the efficient working and reduction in motion and waiting time
waste. With the help of Pareto analysis and studying of past trends, reasons
contributing to high proportion of damage/breakage were ascertained and
corrective actions taken to overcome the same. Process flow was re-engineered
for certain processes to eliminate the unwanted activities through Kaizen. The
journey of success started with a significant cost saving during the first
phase.
“We are pleased to be on this journey of process improvement through lean tools. We could achieve substantial benefits with an instinct to change for better. The entire process triggered a cultural change across the Company. For us it is to cross new and exciting milestones in the journey to high performance. We would be glad to continue this journey & seek more improvements” - Mr. Pravin Shah – Director
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