Improving Plant Layout to Increase Productivity in Furniture Industry

WITH rapid increasing of demand in production, industrial factories need to increase their potentials in production and effectiveness to compete against their competitors. At the same time, the production process needs to be equipped with the ability to have lower cost with higher effectiveness. Therefore, the way to solve the problem about the production is very important. There are many ways i.e. quality control (QC), total quality management (TQM), standard time, plant layout to solve the problems concerning productivity. According to the many researchers plant layout is one way to reduce the cost of manufacturing and increase the productivity. Also increases good workflow in production route. This research describes original plant layout, material flow analysis, which includes area and distance between operation A and B. It was found that there was wasted time or delay in manufacturing, that is to say, the movement of the material in long line and interrupted flow as well as useless area of the plant. According to these problems, the researchers would like to analyze the way to solve such problems and find the way to improve the plant layout.