Green productivity methodology for furniture industry

Abstract

This project presents the implementation of green productivity methodology for furniture industry. The main issue in furniture industry is reducing environment pollution and industry waste. The objective of this study is ti apply and implement the green productivity methodology in furniture industry to carry out the environment and waste problems. The green productivity utilizes three tools, specifically material balance, eco-mapping and plant layout. Through the analysis results of material balance, the majority of production wastes were sawdust and a small piece of woods that cannot be exploited again. Instead of being burned, it will be preferable to be accumulated and sold it at the market. With eco-mapping analysis, it can be recognized about which area that produced the most substantial amount of wasted pieces. Hence, the remaining of sawdust will also be collected to be sold. After that, the proposal of the plant layout has been established with the consideration of production scheme and also the distance between all stations will be closer than before. The plant layout chosen is the first of proposed plant layout because it has the shortest production flow distance, which is 49,5m, which can intensify the efficiency of 160% from the original layout. Besides of the reduction industrial waste of this workshop, the company productivity is increased and obtained the additional income as a consequence of invaluable waste at first, to be processed to gain value-added.