Abstract
The production process is one of the main activities of manufacturing companies that need their continuous improvement and continuously. There are several factors that affect productivity, such as job stress and workload. The workload is shared with uneven to make the work environment uncomfortable. The production data in April 2017 explaining that the sanding small grand piano average produces for 20 units piano/day, with a production target of 21 units piano/day production target has not been achieved. The lack of achievement of these targets due to the difference between the expected level of ability with the capacity level. In this study focused to determine the operator workload on sanding small grand piano is included in the painting section. The workload is calculated using the method of Full-Time Equivalent (FTE). The results showed that the operators have overloaded with FTE scores of both 1.33, 1.35 and 1.34 While the operators have an underload workload with a value of FTE 0.94. 0.64, 0.72. Therefore, Kaizen activity such as balancing jobdesk and modification stopper were applied to reduce the waste. Workload after kaizen plan has decreased each 0.02 FTE with change of work element, each operator has a uniform workload with an average FTE value of 1.13 (underload).
Highlights
Manpower planning is one of the problems for the company, among others related to the workload analysis is not balanced between the number of workload and the amount of labour [1]
Full-time Equivalent (FTE) is one of the tools used to measure the workload, by comparing the time spent in completing various jobs on the effective working time, as well as simplifying the work measurement by changing hours of workload to the number of people required to complete a specific job [3]
This study aims to find out the operational workload of sanding small grand piano operators with full-time equivalent method based on kaizen improvement so that it can be used as input for the company to improve the performance of existing human resources
Summary
Manpower planning is one of the problems for the company, among others related to the workload analysis is not balanced between the number of workload and the amount of labour [1]. Several preliminary studies related workload with various methods including, the study of mental workload using NASA-Task Load Index (TLX) for industrial employees in manufacturing company [4], [5]. Study related workload analysis using Full-time Equivalent has been carried out at foundry SME [8]. Research that concerned to analyse workload measurement or staffing need has been conducted on mining industry [9]. Research about workload measurement using worksampling and task per job has been carried out at service company [10]
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