Muda are wasteful activities that lengthen lead times, cause extra movement to get parts or tools, create excess inventory, or result in any type of waiting. Muda Tori is the principle of ‘elimination of waste’ and over production avoidance.

Panasonic Energy India implements diverse activities under Muda Tori principles to improvise on the existing operational processes. Various groups of personnel are formed with a dedicated leader, facilitator and other members. Each group works on a particular theme and examines the existing situation of any particular process. With thorough research, the group comes with definite solutions to refine the steps involved in the process. Each group is also assigned the task of measuring the performance of the process or theme allotted to them.

The Company has successfully completed various Muda Tori activities, few of which are listed below with their respective tasks.

• To reduce paper work and other administrative cost
• To re-use consumable spare parts
• To reduce mix wastage of battery components
• To identify non moving machines and equipments and utilize the same for project pp after repairing overhauling.
• To reduce slitting wastage
• To eliminate unproductive time and efforts of it department personnel
• To reduce zinc dust quantity in electrolytic solution
• To eliminate ‘usage of steam’ for preparation of 130 electrolyte solution in um-3u
• To reduce LDPE & HDPE wastage
• To identify & make spare parts using in-house facility and reuse of used spare parts.
• Verification & destruction of identified old records of excise & transport & there by improving filing & arrangement of excise & transport records
• To reduce communication expense