Enhancing Productivity Of Mixed-model Assembly Line In Tikur Abbay Shoe S.co

Tikur Abbay shoe S. Co is one of leather industry in Ethiopia, which produces a variety of shoernmodel for local and export markets. The research is mainly focus on the export product, menrnshoe (HARBER) model, production condition has different problem not good workingrnenvironment and less production efficiency this means the company not satisfies internal andrnexternal customer interest such as quality, delivery time and work environment problem. rnFootwear assembly tasks are very repetitive and provide the operators with little opportunity forrnrest. Many operators perform only one operation with no job rotation. The repetitive nature ofrnthe job caused work overload and that was made worse by other workers delivering unfinishedrnshoes to the operators. rnThe general objective to enhance productivity and increase competitiveness of company byrnexport product to meet international quality and workplace ergonomically comfortable, improvernwork environment and safety requirement. rnThe methodologies for the study follows are discussion with target group, direct observation,rnface-to-face interview and distribute questioner to collect ergonomic problem fact and observernproduction section to record working environment problem this all use to collect the researchrnuseful data. Data analysis is interpreted through a descriptive method by using MS–Excel 2016rnsoftware, were used to present data in pie chart, Minitab 16.2.4 software were used to prioritizedrnshoes model and MS-Visio were used to draw root causes analysis of work load and to illustraternthe processes layout. rnThe finding of the study shows that about 33.6 % of defected product is caused by operators duernto work overload in the production stations and due to existing layout problem 28 m distancernwhich is unnecessary movement and ergonomic problems. rnTherefore, improving human ergonomics problem is used to reduce work overload and workerrnhealth problem, improve work condition and improve chair and table design. If proposed layoutrnof production area implemented and ergonomics problem is solved the output of companyrnincreased by 38 pieces of shoe per day and 33.6 % of defected products are solved and thernproduction efficiency is increased by 28.19 % which is 88.95%.

Get Full Work

Report copyright infringement or plagiarism