Productivity Improvement Through Line Balancing at Electronic Company - Case Study

A good manufacturing practice for production assembly can result in better productivity for the organization. This study focusses on productivity improvement of Electronics Manufacturing Service Company (EMSC) production assembly. It also aims to reduce waste and to propose a leaner line balancing w...

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Main Authors: A. F. H., Fansuri, A. N. M., Rose, M. F. F., Ab. Rashid, N. M. Zuki, N. M., H., Ahmad
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Published: IOP Publishing 2018
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spelling ump-214572019-04-09T08:38:57Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21457/ Productivity Improvement Through Line Balancing at Electronic Company - Case Study A. F. H., Fansuri A. N. M., Rose M. F. F., Ab. Rashid N. M. Zuki, N. M. H., Ahmad TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery A good manufacturing practice for production assembly can result in better productivity for the organization. This study focusses on productivity improvement of Electronics Manufacturing Service Company (EMSC) production assembly. It also aims to reduce waste and to propose a leaner line balancing with the elimination of non-value-added activities during the assembly. This study also aims to utilize current workstation to carter for the needs of the workstation to achieve 39 seconds takt time. Time study has been conducted for all workstations and found that all of the cycle time for each workstation exceeds the required takt time of 39 seconds. The bottleneck is at workstation number two with a recorded standard time of 54.1 seconds to complete the assembly thus causes high work in progress at workstation number two and excessive operator idle time to subsequent workstations. The main issue of EMSC is high volume demands from the customer and committing to the shipment plan. By adding one additional operator to workstation number two and a proper distribution of tasks may help EMSC to increase their production output. Time study is recorded in standard work form for future improvement. IOP Publishing 2018 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed pdf en cc_by http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21457/7/Productivity%20Improvement%20Through%20Line%20Balancing%20at%20Electronic%20Company.pdf A. F. H., Fansuri and A. N. M., Rose and M. F. F., Ab. Rashid and N. M. Zuki, N. M. and H., Ahmad (2018) Productivity Improvement Through Line Balancing at Electronic Company - Case Study. In: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, The 3rd International Conference on Manufacturing, Material and Metallurgical Engineering, 17–19 March 2018 , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. pp. 1-10., 409 (012015). ISSN 1757-899X https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/409/1/012015
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A. F. H., Fansuri
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Productivity Improvement Through Line Balancing at Electronic Company - Case Study
description A good manufacturing practice for production assembly can result in better productivity for the organization. This study focusses on productivity improvement of Electronics Manufacturing Service Company (EMSC) production assembly. It also aims to reduce waste and to propose a leaner line balancing with the elimination of non-value-added activities during the assembly. This study also aims to utilize current workstation to carter for the needs of the workstation to achieve 39 seconds takt time. Time study has been conducted for all workstations and found that all of the cycle time for each workstation exceeds the required takt time of 39 seconds. The bottleneck is at workstation number two with a recorded standard time of 54.1 seconds to complete the assembly thus causes high work in progress at workstation number two and excessive operator idle time to subsequent workstations. The main issue of EMSC is high volume demands from the customer and committing to the shipment plan. By adding one additional operator to workstation number two and a proper distribution of tasks may help EMSC to increase their production output. Time study is recorded in standard work form for future improvement.
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author A. F. H., Fansuri
A. N. M., Rose
M. F. F., Ab. Rashid
N. M. Zuki, N. M.
H., Ahmad
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M. F. F., Ab. Rashid
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title Productivity Improvement Through Line Balancing at Electronic Company - Case Study
title_short Productivity Improvement Through Line Balancing at Electronic Company - Case Study
title_full Productivity Improvement Through Line Balancing at Electronic Company - Case Study
title_fullStr Productivity Improvement Through Line Balancing at Electronic Company - Case Study
title_full_unstemmed Productivity Improvement Through Line Balancing at Electronic Company - Case Study
title_sort productivity improvement through line balancing at electronic company - case study
publisher IOP Publishing
publishDate 2018
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21457/
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http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21457/7/Productivity%20Improvement%20Through%20Line%20Balancing%20at%20Electronic%20Company.pdf
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