Role of Quality Improvement Techniques on leather product manufacturing productivity: case of Pittards Product Manufacturing

Abstract

This thesis assessed role of quality improvement techniques in the productivity of Pittards Product Manufacturing. Quality improvement is a systematic, formal approach to the analysis of practice performance and efforts to improve performance. Leveraging the right one can lead to improved productivity, reduced errors, and greater profitability overall. Ethiopia is one of the largest country in the world for its livestock resources and indeed but it is underperformed due to different reasons. This leads the country to lose of comparative advantages in the global export competition and experience reduced export performance. Leather industries apply different techniques to improvement quality. While study had asses the role of quality improvement practices helps to improve Performance productivity. The descriptive research design was undertaken with the help of the structured questionnaire to conduct the research. The research had done based on the responses of employees from different section working in the selected case leather factory pittards product manufacturing. Data was collected from 109 respondents. The data found From 4 weekly production report we measured Overall Equipment Effectiveness of production of the company was on average 56.2.OEE bench mark show that the company was underperformed and need to improved manufacturing performance through straight forward measure. From the data this research found that the company faced quality related problems due to quality row material availability and lack of skilled manpower mainly. finally, the research recommended that Ethiopian leather industry development institute should implement a certain quality standards for leather product manufacturing companies and train farmers to practice modern husbandry system requires skilled labor, selected breeds, modern breeding techniques, and provision of sufficient health service and feed so as to improve current animal husbandry, slaughtering and preservation practices, which reduce the quality and value of raw hides and skins to improve the competitiveness of the sector.