Increasing Efficiency of Tempered Glass Production Process

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to: 1) study the tempered glass production process and 2) increase the efficiency of the tempered glass milling process. The case study in this research was the factory in Samut Prakan Province that produced mobile screen protectors. The research methodology started with studying the tempered glass production process, the tempered glass milling process, then, analyzing the cause of the problem and designing the solution. The results showed that the employee had an idle time of 39% waiting for machine operation. We applied the machine-man ratio to this process improvement.

After the improvement, the results illustrated that a new production cycle time was 132 seconds. The employee had working proportion of 91% and the developed production process yielded 12 pieces per production cycle or 50% increase.