An Elimination Type of Pokayoke- A Game Changer Tool in the Propeller Shaft Assembly

Monitoring the Industrial OEE (Overall Equipment Effec tiveness) [3],[4]is now a day’s a very essential concern for optimizing the use of the resources and tracking the efficiency of the manufacturing organ ization. To produce the goods with no errors is really a challen ge in this era. Pokayoke [1] is a Japanese term; whi ch means “Mistake Proofing” and most widely used in automoti ve industries to eliminate defect and possibility o f producing the defective parts. “Elimination” is one of the type of the Pokayoke system; which is generally adopted to eliminate the possibility of the chance error during the operatio n. Thistool is used in Propeller Shaft manufacturin g organization; especially in Propeller Shaft assembly; resulting i n the productivity optimization which is achieved mo re than 50%, another breakthrough is 20% saving in “rework” parts and 30% “Not ok” parts are saved out of the total propeller shafts considered for trial.