Productivity improvement through line balancing of the powercap production at Maxim Philippines Operating Corporation, Sto. Tomas, Batangas, Philippines.

Date

10-2012

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology (CEAT)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Yap, Mikel Angelo B.

Committee Member

De Silva, Diana Marie R.

Abstract

Maxim Philippines Operating Corporation- Batangas (MPOC-Batangas) manufactures a wide variety of microprocessor-based electronic equipments from personal computers and peripherals to automotive applications. The powercap device, the highest profit loss and the most demanded product in the Module category, has an average productivity of 89.37 units per hour but the forecasts demand requires a 51.67% increase in productivity. Due to this unsatisfied demands, a profit loss of PhP 4,347,130.97 is incurred in a year. The low throughput that caused these unmet demands was attributed to the long actual cycle time of the component baking, singulate per assembly drawing and load lead frames of the powercap production. Using scientific method and Industrial Engineering tools, the root causes for the low throughput in the Assembly were identified. To improve the throughput of the bottleneck operations, it was recommended to implement a stricter supervision of group leaders, reward system for no lateness, buying the latest in technology oven, a change of the operators’ break time schedule, buying a new singulation machine, reestablish standard procedure for loading lead frame and adopting a Flexible travel lot Size. The recommendations result in a significant 44.56% increase in productivity and involve an initial cost of Php3,976,545.39 but will result to a maximu potential savings of Php4,894,326.37 annually.

Language

English

Location

UPLB College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology

Call Number

LG 993.5 2012 E66 A74

Document Type

Thesis

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