The Development and Implementation Lean Manufacturing in Indonesian Furniture Industry

摘要

This research discusses about the principles of lean manufacturing in furniture export industries. The aim of this research is to improve productivity by reducing waste which exists in the production floor. This research discusses about the implementation of Value Stream Mapping (VSM) as waste initial identification instrument, standardization work, and Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) as an analysis tool and improvement implementation. Both of that methods are conducted in this research. This research is practically applicable and proven to be able to reduce waste which exists in production floor and to improve the factory's productivity.