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ENGINEERING JOURNAL CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY


Volume 26, No. 03, Month DECEMBER, Year 2019, Pages 88 - 101


Productivity improvement of namdokmai mango packing process a case study: an exporter of tropical fruits and vegetables

Parinya Pattanawasanporn


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Nowadays, competitive companies require of short lead times, low costs and high customer service levels to survive. The paper proposes an approach to reduce lead time and cycle time in the process including identify employee"es procedures and working hours as standard for provide an operations procedures manual for the company. It is based on a case study of the Namdokmai mango packing process of Shine Forth Co., Ltd. The problem can be divided into 5 problems. The researchers have chosen to improve the 3 problems that most effect on company. First, they don’t have standard time in procedures. Second, the employees work duplicate. Finally, employees don’t have clearly duty. These problems were solved by process analysis and standard time techniques. The paper reports numerical results that can reduce lead time by 30.5 percent from 95.2 to 66.2 seconds per kilogram and reduce cycle time by 42.1 percent from 30.4 to 17.6 seconds per kilogram. This result ensures that company can be more efficient process.


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