Case Study: Lean Implementation at Siemens' Kalwa Plant
Graduate School of Business Faculty of Business & Accountancy
CMGB6104: Operation Management
Case Study: Lean Implementation at Siemens' Kalwa Plant
Prepared For:
Dr. Kanagi Kanapathy
Prepared by Group 5 (Wednesday 6.30 p.m. class):
Jamaludin Muhamad Yusof CGA 120092
Sathisveran CGA 100081
Vinoden Subramaniam CGA 120012
Payam Nasehi CGA 120079
Salwa Faharudin CGA 110110
Table of Contents Page
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1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY & COMPANY BACKGROUND 3
2.0 QUESTION 1 8
3.0 QUESTION 2 11
3.0 QUESTION 3 13
5.0 QUESTION 4 15
6.0 QUESTION 5 17
7.0 REFERENCES 22
1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY & COMPANY BACKGROUND
Briefly, in this case we glimpse on Kalwa Planet-Siemens in India which improve itself from a traditional organization to lean management structure.
The first Siemens work shop started on May 1st, 1955 in a small place on Mumbai with 10 employees and with very simple equipment’s. Their main business is fixing damaged switch boards and other fabrication jobs which most of their components were imported and small number of them produced inside workshop. In 2009 Siemens company in India consolidate its place rather than before this factory equipped with the most modern machinery and testing facilities and 40 percent of the India Siemens worked in Kalwa factory, not only they change their role during these years from a simple assembly site to the medium voltage switchboards (M1) producer ,medium voltage indoor and outdoor vacuum circuit breakers (MC) producer , gas insulated switcher (M2-GIS)producer in support of the main company , but also they improved their position in the market , now the company has 5 factories in Mumbai , Nasik , Calcutta ,Aurangabad and Goa , 4000 employees and 11 sales offices, 300 dealers . Furthermore their company is second Siemens factories outside of Germany after Brazil branch.
Siemens improve its
CMGB6104: Operation Management
Case Study: Lean Implementation at Siemens' Kalwa Plant
Prepared For:
Dr. Kanagi Kanapathy
Prepared by Group 5 (Wednesday 6.30 p.m. class):
Jamaludin Muhamad Yusof CGA 120092
Sathisveran CGA 100081
Vinoden Subramaniam CGA 120012
Payam Nasehi CGA 120079
Salwa Faharudin CGA 110110
Table of Contents Page
_____________________________________________________________________________________
1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY & COMPANY BACKGROUND 3
2.0 QUESTION 1 8
3.0 QUESTION 2 11
3.0 QUESTION 3 13
5.0 QUESTION 4 15
6.0 QUESTION 5 17
7.0 REFERENCES 22
1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY & COMPANY BACKGROUND
Briefly, in this case we glimpse on Kalwa Planet-Siemens in India which improve itself from a traditional organization to lean management structure.
The first Siemens work shop started on May 1st, 1955 in a small place on Mumbai with 10 employees and with very simple equipment’s. Their main business is fixing damaged switch boards and other fabrication jobs which most of their components were imported and small number of them produced inside workshop. In 2009 Siemens company in India consolidate its place rather than before this factory equipped with the most modern machinery and testing facilities and 40 percent of the India Siemens worked in Kalwa factory, not only they change their role during these years from a simple assembly site to the medium voltage switchboards (M1) producer ,medium voltage indoor and outdoor vacuum circuit breakers (MC) producer , gas insulated switcher (M2-GIS)producer in support of the main company , but also they improved their position in the market , now the company has 5 factories in Mumbai , Nasik , Calcutta ,Aurangabad and Goa , 4000 employees and 11 sales offices, 300 dealers . Furthermore their company is second Siemens factories outside of Germany after Brazil branch.
Siemens improve its