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Company Profile ; Zydus Cadila is an innovative global pharmaceutical company that discovers,

develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of healthcare products

Situation; The company want to improve operational excellence by

End to end operations.

Continuous material movement, no in process storage.

Full visibility of all operations, preferably on same floor.

Each process should be pull system instead of conventional produce and push system.

In short only when one batch is completely produced next batch can be taken.

No in process quarantine.

Inspection and QC are non Value added activities (so time taken for inspection and quality

control activities to be minimized).

Any process is in trouble, rest of the resources pours in to solve it immediately.

With the elimination of most departmental barriers, communication was enhanced.

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Results.

Value added time(% Total Time) 40%

Cycle Time 80 Hrs

(Dispensing to Packing)

Distance Traveled by Batch 73 mts

(Dispensing to Packing)

Distance traveled by QC

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Statement of recommendation;

By implementing value stream mapping we can reduce the lead time of the operation and as

well elimination of seven Mudas in the operation.