Analisis Keseimbangan Lintasan dan Keselamatan Kerja pada Bagian Produksi di PT. Hakaya Indomas II

The monetary crisis that happened in Indonesia since 1997 have not had a significant impact to Indonesia entrepreneurs especially the furniture exporters since the price of their products have become much higher even though the raw materials have been also very expensive. In order to survive and compete with other exporters which also running furniture business. It was needed to do analysis and improvement in the working processes. This paper is taking a case study in PT Hakaya Indomas II which is one of furniture-base companies that producing bedroom set: one of their family products is dresser. The company had a problem of inconvenient working condition such as hot temperature, dusty, noisy and dirty. It has been found that many workers unwilling to wear working costume and safety guard that have been prepared by the company. There was also another case occured, such as lack of danger warning sign and unbalanced workers allocation which caused a bottle neck. Based on the problems, it has been done some proposed improvements and some of them have been successfully implemented. Some of the the suggested improvements were that attaching the danger warning signs in some risky working areas, intensive usage of safety guard stuffs and intensively supervising the worker performance. To solve the unbalanced workers allocation in certain working elements and to reduce bottle neck, it has been proposed a new worker allocation and arrangement by using Line Balancing Method supported by Quantitative Systems Software. As a result, there was an arrangement of 32 working elements into 14 workstations and 6 doubled workstations. In addition the amount of workers needed also has been reduced from 34 to 24 so that there was an efficiency of 10 persons. Finally the balanced delay has also been reduced from 85.27802% to 16.74349% in the daily capacity of 40 set.