Date

4-2009

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology (CEAT)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Mikel Angelo Yap

Committee Member

Haerold Dean Z. Layaeon, Marc Immanuel G. Isip, Herbert T. Manaligod

Abstract

Del Monte Philippines Inc. (DMPI) is a member of the Del Monte Pacific Limited of companies which includes the Great Lakes Fresh Foods and Juice Co. in China and Del Monte Foods-India in India. The company is located at Bugo, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental. The DMPI is a food processing industry that started producing as early as 1920's. Through innovation of products, the plantation has expanded its capacity through the decades in order to meet the demand. The company's latest decade-long expansion plan has started in 2007. This expansion plan was due to their forecasted demands which are higher than their current capacity. The expansion plan paves way for the Plastic Cup Production facility to increase its capacity in order to distribute the plastic cup products here in the Philippines and meet the growing local and international demand. The study was focused on the Plastic Cup Production facility. The facility has 3 major areas: Preparation, Pasteurizer, and Labeling. The current facility uses three lines to in the preparation area. The capacity of the lines is inadequate to meet the demand. In the expansion facility, the company decided all three lines should be G Mondini lines, which is considered as the best available machine by the company, with the option to choose for thew fourth installment of the G Mondini line. The major concern in the plastic cup expansion is the determination of how many lines should run the facility in order to meet the demand. In order to know the required number of G Mondini lines to run the expansion facility, the problem was analyzed using Industrial Engineering tools, concepts and problem-solving techniques. The findings of this study can be used as an initial reference in hiring number of workers in thew new facility for the plastic cup production that produces locally and in the renewal of contract with AsiaPro regarding workforce. It was found out during these days that the current 3 line facility's capacity is inadequate and the manpower is misallocated due to management's insufficient workplace planning. From the analysis of the current manpower allocation, the standard times to finish each task were computed. The results of manpower allocation analysis conducted suggest that it is recommended to remove four workers, relocate 5 workers and an additional one worker to run the expansion facility's 3 G Mondini Lines. The number of workers for the expansion (using 3G mondini lines) is 48. The results in evaluation of the alternatives for line requirements, base on the international and local demand of 2.5 million cups per month, suggest that it is best to utilize the current lines used in the current facility, the two Glass-filling lines, rather than installing another G Mondini line. Installation of another G Mondini Lines is expensive and its capacity is far greater than thje demand. The option of using the old two lines, Glass-filling line, in the current facility,is less expensive and can meet the demand more efficiently. The new facility would consist of 3 G Mondini Lines, 2 Glass-filling lines and an additional layer for the pasteurizer in order for the Pasteurizer area to accommodate five lines from the Preparation area.

Language

English

LC Subject

Production management--Case studies, Industry analysis

Call Number

LG 993.5 2009 E66 C37

Document Type

Thesis

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