Optimizing the Assembly Process in the Hang on Part Station by Adding Supporting Tools at Automotive Company PT. XYZ Indonesia

Abstract

Human is the most important aspect in every manual process. When it comes to the manufacturing process, the power of human will affect a huge part of the result. It does not matter how good the raw material is, if the worker cannot do the good job to the material, the product will not be good as well. The same case happens in an automotive company. In their factory plant, most of all activities are done by human. The automatic process can still be counted. These manual processes affect directly to the cycle time in the stations. In this research, the focus of the observation is in a Hang on Part station which is the first station in the assembly line of this automotive factory plant. Since it is the first place to start the assembly process in whole plant, an improvement is important in order to increase the productivity in the assembly line. The improvement is conducted by designing the supporting tools to help the worker in the station optimizing the activity they do, analyzing the product with software to see if there is any mistake by the design, and count the new cycle time by using the supporting tools to see if there is any improvement. It is expected to reduce the cycle time and reduce the worker in the station.