Chelny Khleb to increase production by 30%
In September 2020, AO Chelny-Khleb joined the Labour Productivity and Employment Support national project. It is a present-day full-cycle enterprise for the production of bakery and confectionery products, the range of which exceeds 100 items. The company’s products have been in demand for over 40 years among residents of the city and the republic. The product range is constantly expanding. At the same time, the technology base of the enterprise is being continuously updated.
As a pilot project, the company determined the flow of confectionery products on the Fritsch production line, which includes a full production cycle, starting with the process of receiving feedstock and preparing the dough and ending with the shipment of finished confectionery products to the client. The choice of the stream is not accidental. The existing potential of the equipment, the increasing demand for products and the desire to increase efficiency, allow working out all the available lean production tools using the example of the pilot stream.
The goal of the project is to increase output by 30%, reduce production inventories by 60% and cut production times by 55%. Along with the project target indicators, the action plan includes the tasks of training the project’s working group and company’s executives on the topics of “Decomposition” and “Effective Information Centre”, as well as the training of an internal lean coach for the enterprise. Today, the project is at the final stage of diagnosing the current state of the flow.