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ENGINEERING JOURNAL CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY
Volume 26, No. 03, Month DECEMBER, Year 2019, Pages 1 - 13
Productivity improvement of noodle production process in case study: noodle production factory
Kanoknapa Boonsongprasert and Khongphu Nimanandh
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The purpose of this independent study is to improve productivity of noodle production process of case study factory. From the general manager"es interview found that the workload of the production line and the number of employees is not balancing. This reflected the use of inefficiency production resources. The product used in this study was 2 types include fresh noodle and semi-dry noodle. The scope of this study ranged from rice cleaning process to packing noodle process. This study used quality improvement, process analysis, time study, production line balancing, labor productivity, 7 wastes, 7 QC tools and Eliminate, Combine, Rearrange, and Simplify (ECRS). The study results indicated that the improvement of fresh noodle production process can increase the efficiency of fresh noodle production process 4.27 percent, decrease cycle time 8.13 percent, decrease number employee in this production process 4 persons and increase labor productivity 41.57 percent. And the improvement of semi-dry noodle production process indicated that the efficiency of semi-dry noodle production process and cycle time are the same as 66.85 percent and 18.68 second per kilogram respectively due to the limitations of the machine that no additional investment and packing process can’t be changed. But this improvement can decrease number employee in this production process 5 persons and increase labor productivity 16.59 percent.
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