“A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ‘5S’ IN STANDARD TILE & CLAY WORKS (P) Ltd. CHERUVANNUR WITH REFERENCE TO THE EMPLOYEES” Minor Project Report

SUMITTED TO

UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT

In partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA)

Submitted By

SAKKEER C.B

REG NO.LCAMMBA119

3rd SEMESTER MBA

Under the Guidance of

Mr. Eldo G Zacharia Kayyalath

Assistant Professor

LEAD COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT DHONI, PALGHAT

NOVEMBER 2013

DECLARATION

I SAKKEER CB hereby declare that this Project Report entitled “A FEASIBILITY

STUDY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ‘5S’ IN STANDARD TILE & CLAY WORKS

(P) Ltd. CHERUVANNUR IN REFERENCE TO THE EMPLOYEES” is a bonafide record

of research work done by me during the year 2012-14, in partial fulfillment of the

requirement for the award of the degree of MBA under Calicut University, and it is done

under the close supervision of Mr.Anil P,Finance manager of Standard Tile & Clay

Works(p)Ltd and Mr.Eldo G Zacharia, Assistant Professor of LEAD College of

Management. I also declare that this report is the result of my sincere effort and has not

previously formed the basis for award of any degree, diploma, associate ship, and fellowship

or other similar title of the recognition.

.

Place: Palakkad SAKKEER CB

Date: LCAMMBA119

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It is one of the great opportunities to me to express my gratitude towards all those who are

directly or indirectly helped me a lot for the successful completion of this project work.

Firstly I take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to God for blessing and guiding

me in the right path.

It is a great pleasure to acknowledge my sincere thanks to Dr. Unninarayanan K V, Director,

LEAD College of Management for his continuous encouragement during the course of

project.

Here, I happily record my abiding gratitude to Mr. Murughan, M.D Standard tile & clay

works (p) Ltd, Feroke. Who was generous in proving me all necessary facilities in carrying

out of this project work.

I am obliged to Mr. Eldo G Zacharia, Assistant Professor LEAD College of Management and

Mr. Anil P, Finance Manager STCW (p) Ltd. For their valuable guidance and constructive

criticisms which helped me a lot to shape my project.

Last, but not least I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all my friends and family for

all kind of support they have provided to me throughout the project work.

SAKKEER CB

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters. Title Page No.

Chapter 1 1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction to 5’S

1.2 Industry profile

1.3 Company profile

1.4 Research Problem Statement

1.5 Objectives

1.6 Scope of study

1.7 Research methodology

1.8 Limitation of the study

1-15

Chapter 2 2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE 16-25

Chapter 3 DATA ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION 26-39

Chapter 4 4.1 SUMMARY

4.2 FINDINGS

4.3 RECOMMENDATIONS

40

41

42

BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDIX

44-47

LIST OF TABLES

Table no. Title of Tables Page no.

Table 2.2.1 Table showing over view of 5 pillars of 5S 20-22

Table 3.1 Table showing the basis of data collection & interpretation

27

Table 3.2 Table showing Employees Awareness about the 5S system 28

Table 3.3 Table showing Employees Responds towards 5S Training 29

Table 3.4 Table showing Employees Responds towards Switchover to 5S system

30

Table 3.5 Table showing Employees Responds on Designated place for arranging tools & equipment

31

Table 3.6 Table showing Employees Responds on average time taken for finding tools & equipment

32

Table 3.7 Table showing Employees Responds on Proper Arrangement of tools &equipment

33

Table 3.8 Table showing Employees Responds on improved productivity through cleaned work environment

34

Table 3.9 Table showing Employees Responds on cleaning in work place

35

Table 3.10 Table showing Employees Responds on machineries repair & maintenance

36

Table 3.11 Table showing Employees Responds on safety training programs & attendance

37

Table 3.12 Table showing Employees Responds on last training happened in the company

38

LIST OF CHARTS

Chart no. Title of Charts Page no.

Fig.1.1.1 Fig. 1 shows the general illustration of 5S 3

Fig.1.1.2 Fig. 2 shows the process of 5S 5

Chart3.2Chart3.2 shows the distribution of employee’s responds

on awareness about 5S

28

Chart3.3Chart3.3 shows the distribution of employees responds

towards 5S training

29

Chart3.4Chart3.4 shows the distribution of Employees Responds

towards Switchover to 5’S system

30

Chart3.5 Chart3.5 shows the distribution Employees Responds on

Designated place for arranging tools & equipment

31

Chart3.6 Chart3.6 shows the distribution of Employees Responds

on average time taken for finding tools & equipment

32

Chart3.7 Chart3.7 shows the distribution on Employees Responds

on Proper Arrangement of tools &equipment

33

Chart3.8 Chart3.8 shows the distribution of Employees Responds

on improved productivity through cleaned work

environment

34

Chart3.9Chart3.9 shows the distribution of Employees Responds

on cleaning in work place

35

Chart3.10 Chart3.10 shows the distribution on Employees Responds

on machineries repair & maintenance

36

Chart3.11 Chart3.11 shows the distribution on Employees Responds

on safety training programs & attendance

37

Chart3.12Chart3.12 shows the distribution of Employees Responds

on last training happened in the company

38