Improvement of Production Layout in the Furniture Industry in Indonesia with the Concept of Group Technology

摘要

The furniture industry in Indonesia is multiplying, with average report rate was reached US$ 1,627 billion in 2017. According to the massive potential of the furniture industry in Indonesia, a method to increase its productivity and efficiency is indispensable. Group technology in cell manufacturing as an approach to achieve its previous objective is used to improve the production layout. Rank Order Clustering (ROC) and Hollier method are used to classifying machines and process in the production layouts. The Discrete Event Simulation (DES) as a validation tool proven that the layout improvement is successfully reducing the total travel time 24.6% and total travel distance up to 16.1%.