: Industries of this generation are spending a considerable amount of money in Research and Development sector to
invent and discover new technologies that would help them increase their profits. Lean Manufacturing is a manufacturing
philosophy that is now being adopted by many of the big industrial giants across the world to improve the current process. This
study applies lean manufacturing tools and techniques to an automotive parts industry located in the Gujarat state of India. The
current state of the assembly line is plotted using Value Stream Mapping, a tool of Lean Manufacturing