Increasing Productivity of Busbars manufacturing in Switch Board Industry
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This research aims to increase efficiency of busbars manufacturing, which is a part of the switchboard manufacturing process. According to the recent study, the plant layout was disorganized. As a result, inefficient work flows and delays in the manufacturing process were occurring. In this study, principles of the Systematic Layout Planning Pattern (SLP) and analysis the relationship by relationship charts with the Arena program are used to improve plant layout to be more effective. The result shows that the distance was decreased from 32 meters to 19 meters ,which equivalent to 40% and production time was decreased by 7%. As a result, the productivity increased by 15%, which makes employees work faster, reduce employees fatigue, which make the busbars production rate increased and increasing the productivity in the manufacturing process as well.
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