Application of work study to reduce operations time at glove industry

Lee, Wee Pin (2015) Application of work study to reduce operations time at glove industry. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Work efficiency and effectiveness becomes one of the key factors in the performance of manufacturing company. The purpose of this research is to reduce the operation time in a packaging department in glove manufactured industry. An application of work study was applied in order to increase the efficiency. Data collections through observations have been done in the packaging department. The observations were focus on the current operations procedures on workers in packaging department and the cycle time of each job elements was measured and recorded in prepared forms. The standard time computed based on their cycle time with the consideration of factors allowance included such as personal needs, fatigue and unavoidable delays. In order to identify whether the capacity meet the demand, takt time was developed and compare to the standard time. A standardized work was developed and used to propose new working procedures which able to reduce the current cycle time for each related worker. The productivity level of current system was identified of 54%. New working procedures were also proposed by minimizing the non-value added activities among the process. The result for this research shows the performance of workers in packing process by comparing the current standard time which used 6.69 seconds/units of product and the improved standard time, 3.58 seconds/units of product of the operations, the operations time improved up to 45%.

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