Facility layout design improvement in bottled drinking water at teaching factory

Abstract

The Bottled Drinking Water Teaching Factory (Tefa) at State Polytechnic of Jember (Polije) produces mineral water packaged in several sizes of bottles, glasses, and gallons. The efficiency and effectiveness of the bottled drinking water production process is influenced by the layout of production facilities. The mismatch of machine layout arrangement and the number of unused equipment causes material flow to be longer. This study aims to redesign the layout of the Tefa Bottled Drinking Water facility to maximize area utilization and reduce empty space. This research provides recommendations for facility layout improvements using the Systematic layout planning (SLP) method. Alternative designs were proposed and compared the performance of each design with the initial layout. The results of the proposed method’s distance processing affect the total material handling cost. The total distance of the proposed method facility is 11.7 meters while the distance of the current facility is 28.8 meters so that can save material handling costs by 59%.