Abstract
Efficiency improvement in manufacturing company is essential to ensure the cycle of continuous improvement. Prior decision was reducing 6 operators in the cold press team work into 5 workers. Thus significant changes, of course, would resulted in the change of the workload experienced by each operator. The research objective in this study is validating from the productivity of the reduction conducted by measuring the workload with combining Full Time Equivalent (FTE) and Cardiovascular Load Percentage (%CVL). The result states that there are differences in measurement results workload from both methods. Based on the FTE method, all Cold Press operator’s workload has an index in average of 1.4128 with all was above 1.28 indicating the “Overload” condition. On the other hand, based on the physical workload method obtained that % CVL in average was 8.272% with all operator was below 30% which indicates the workload of all Cold Press operators were in a not experiencing fatigue category. Keywords: Workload, FTE, %CVL, productivity, Physical Workload.
Highlights
IntroductionBased on previous pilot study for this manufacturing company, in order to improve productivity on a production line, the Cold Press working group control labour efficiency by reducing the number of operators from the original 6 operators into 5 operators
XYZ Manufacturing company is a manufacturing company that are producing musical instrument that located in the main production area in Indonesia
The Full Time Equivalent (FTE) was calculated based on the job description performed for each operator
Summary
Based on previous pilot study for this manufacturing company, in order to improve productivity on a production line, the Cold Press working group control labour efficiency by reducing the number of operators from the original 6 operators into 5 operators. For each working group in XYZ Company provides a Value Stream Mapping and Industrial Engineering project, where each working group is targeted to perform labour productivity increases of up to 15% for the cabinet or products assembly and 30% for the cabinet or non-assembly products, supported by the application of Kaizen in each working group. In order to increase the productivity of the Cold Press working group production control labour efficiency by reducing the number of operators from the original 6 carriers to 5 operators
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