Shopfloor Layout Design Using Blocplan Algorithm To Reduce Waste Transportation Activity On Biofertilizer Products Pt. Centra Biotech Indonesia Klaten Jawa Tengah
Abstract
PT. Centra Biotech Indonesia is a national company that produces and markets environmentally
friendly biotechnology products with special microbial base ingredients as the main composition.
PT. Centra Biotech Indonesia provides various biotechnology products in agriculture, livestock,
fisheries, and so on, to support health and productivity. Currently, Facility layout at PT. Centra
Biotech Indonesia has not used specific rules in the placement of equipment and machines used
for the production process and does not pay attention to the flow of the production process. This
results in limited space for workers, as well as repetition of activities that result in wasted time,
inefficient production processes, thereby reducing productivity. The facility layout planning
method used in this study is BLOCPLAN. BLOCPLAN is a program developed for facility layout
design using a hybrid algorithm that combines a constructive algorithm and a repair algorithm.
The objective function of BLOCPLAN is to minimize the distance between facilities or maximize
the close relationship between each workstation. Based on the results of data processing, it can be
concluded that Waste activities that have a direct impact on the material handling flow are in the
Transportation Waste category, namely the distance between workstations. The proposed layout
can reduce the distance between workstations by 32% and the distance Traveling Distance of
Material Handling by 27%. This indicates that the layout of the proposal can be applied at PT.
Centra Biotech Indonesia because it can decrease 32% of Waste of Transportation needed to
transfer Material handling and distance for each workstation.
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