Process Improvement of Spice Packing

Abstract

The objective of this research is to improve the spice packing process by applying the principles of industrial engineering. Due to the production process of the company, the case study is mainly based on manual labour, which is a manual work and has a very short cycle time. Therefore, studying motion and time by analyzing the work of two hands thoroughly. The result is finding the wastage caused by unnecessary work methods, which is the work of type, inefficiency time or excess time, which have many elements. Then, finding ways to improve work methods to reduce waste. The result after the improvement, it was found that the number of elements decreased by 36 percent and the standard time decreased by 58 percent. When considering the labour productivity of each employee, there were very different values, causing the production line to be unbalanced. Therefore, balancing new production lines by maintaining the same number of employees. The result is equal labour productivity, causing the production line balanced, no more bottlenecks, and double the productivity. When labour productivity increased by 147 percent, resulting in a 60 percent reduction in labour costs per unit.